Kingsland struggles to deal with flooding caused by beaver dams

KINGSLAND - City workers in Kingsland have been trying to keep up with the beavers. <br> <br> The public works department keeps destroying the beaver dams to try to unblock drainage pipes and prevent streets from flooding. <br> <br> But then the beavers come right back and built more. <br> <br> Public works Director Bill Coleman says the only option is to try to destroy the beaver dams as soon as they can be built. <br> <br> The dams can be as large as four feet tall and 75 feet across. <br> <br> The animals have been building them with tree limbs, mud, leaves, trash, chunks of tires and anything else they can find. <br> <br> Wildlife biologist Carmen Martin says the animals instinctively build dams when they hear flowing water. <br> <br> Beavers are among the few animals that create their own habitats. They like shallow water and the dams can also create wetlands that are beneficial to waterfowl, fish and other animals. <br> <br> Martin says the only way to stop the beavers may be to trap and destroy them.

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