PHOTOS: Clay Township seeking help with beavers
Clay Township Supervisor Dave Beachem stands on a bridge on Friday afternoon where one of the many beaver lodges in Muddy Creek can be seen in the background. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
Clay Township is asking for help from the county and state Game Commission, as multiple dams have saturated the aptly named Beaver Dam Road and are cause rising waters that threaten to flood the basements of nearby homes.
Beachem reports that one dam is 700 feet wide, while another measures 400 feet. The township does not have the funds or equipment to rectify the problem, he said.
Muddy Creek is the main feeder waterway for Lake Arthur at Moraine State Park, Beachem said.
One of the many Beaver huts around Muddy Creek. The population of beavers has turned what should be a small creek into a few hundred acres of flooded land, Clay Township Supervisor Dave Beachem said Friday afternoon. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
The Beaver population in Muddy Creek has turned what should be a small creek into a few hundred acres of flooded land Clay Township Supervisor Dave Beachem said Friday afternoon. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
