Beavers Helping me? - 02/06/17 09:17 PM
I normally conceder beavers a bad thing for a pond, but after some recent flooding in the creek near my 9 acre pond displaced a couple of beavers into it, I'm rethinking it. After the recent hurricane in SC dropped an enormous amount of rain on the state, my pond was running over on the backside off a natural wide low spot that dumped into the creek. Something it rarely does because it is spring feed. Well the two displaced beavers decided all that leaking water was a terrible thing and started raising the bank height along the back of the pond, increasing the pond height 1'-2' currently. Now the rest of the pond has quite high banks, so it's not a problem right now and I really conceder this a win for me. I have thought about taking the backhoe at some point and reinforcing there work while installing a drain pipe to handle future run over and try to keep the current level.
Now,I'm not 100% sure their still in the pond as I have not seen them lately at dark, but at what point does this become counter productive to the pond? Or does it until it runs over? A few of the trees that used to be a along the shore edge are under water, but are plenty others behind them.
Now,I'm not 100% sure their still in the pond as I have not seen them lately at dark, but at what point does this become counter productive to the pond? Or does it until it runs over? A few of the trees that used to be a along the shore edge are under water, but are plenty others behind them.