OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. (WTNH) – Several homes and businesses in Old Saybrook are flooded with more than four feet of water after the removal of a beaver dam.
According to the Old Saybrook Fire Department, many homes along the intersection of Route 1 and Route 154 are flooded.The state’s Department of Transportation partially removed the dam because of a clogged culvert.
Yes you heard it here first, REMOVAL of a beaver dam can cause flooding. Who knew? Apparently not the Deparment of Transportation (DOT) folks who ripped debris outta that culvert. They had no idea all those homes would be in four feet of water in a few hours. Now they’re saying that there must have been OTHER culverts blocked too! But who could POSSIBLY have guessed that? since beavers never build more than one dam in an area!
Except that they do. And DOT spends enough time destroying beavers and their dams to have a wing named after it so they should have known better. And call me suspicious but I don’t believe they would have ever done this next to a wealthy neighborhood or a powerplant. Well, the waters gone now anyway. And the beavers too probably. Maybe the folks in CT will connect the DOTs and hold them accountable for incredibly bad planning, but my guess is that the problem will be blamed on beavers and they’ll just promise to kill more next time.
Am I the only one who wonders where this is where the term ‘dotty‘ comes from?
