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Beaver Dam Collapse

submitted by Mekanikal

8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago

This video documents a dam collapse on our property in Northern Minnesota. The beavers have been building on this dam, adding one and a half feet in height per year for the last 7 years. Needless to say, they reached the limit of 9 feet and it spontaneously collapsed draining the whole pond in about 4 hours. Thankfully no one was near the spillway when it blew.

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I hope that beaver is ready to be slapped with a huge negligence lawsuit.

DAMMIT!

Someone graduated at the bottom of the Damn Building class at Beavering school.

From the guy who owns the property and posted the video:

Update:
DAM REBUILT
6 weeks after this Collapse the Beavers rebuilt the dam to 4 ft high. The pond is now two thirds full and their house entrance should be accessible for the winter. By next summer I expect it to be totally rebuilt. -yt

Also here is a video with the new beaver pond in it(beginning of video), about four months after the original damn broke, I assume, as the videos were posted that far apart. https://youtu.be/ubk9vXVJ1q4

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by eric3579.

*dead

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by MrFisk.

*notdead works fine where I am.

This dead video has been deemed functional; either it was accidentally declared dead or Mekanikal is planning to manually replace the embed with a backup - declared notdead by Mekanikal.

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