Since I don't have equipment or $$$$$ to buy some, or experience to run rented equipment, there's not much I can do as far as a large project on the creek. Contractors, even small ones, won't do anything in the confines of a stream. Guess I will keep scraping a pump suction hole with a rake and hoe every time it fills in. It filled in about three times since the big flood. Maybe the next big flood will re-create the large natural pool that was once there. Thanks for all the suggestions.