Beavers................

Hi all.
We have a problem. Beavers have closed off the culvert at the Le Clair farm. Damaris and I opened it up on Thursday night. But the water was too high to get the branches that were stuck in the culvert out. So the next morning we went back again, hoping to find the water receded. But to our surprise, the beavers had fixed the hole right up again.
This is what the culvert looks like. This is a picture from last year. In the top picture you can see how the water was running right over the driveway. Friday morning I went back to open it up again. The water would not flow good anymore because the culvert was plugged up bad. So I put two lenghts of sewerpipe in the dam. You can see the pipes in the water. they are about a foot under, weighed down by rocks. The ends of the pipe are drilled full of holes, so that they can't be plugged up too easy.
The upright pipe shows were the end of the culvert is located.
Damaris is looking on, taking some pictures today, as we had a look this afternoon. The culvert is completely gone now. All mudded over. It is amazing how crafty they are.
So for now, we are at a stand off. I hope that the pipes can keep up with the flow of the brook. Otherwise we are going to loose the driveway in a heavy rain.
Thanks for joining us here, and we will keep you up to date.