Hastings county is a wetlands rich area, where many beavers live. Beaver culling is primarily a rural aggregate. Bringing beavers to areas of need, is unfortunately prohibited. Human productivity brings conflict on many fronts. Despite this, beavers are any where near endangered.
While Canadians personify beavers, there is also a dark history. Beavers have been and do remain a viable industry. While we embrace renewables, Canadians have largely turned their backs on fur as viable and instead use less environmentally synthetics, so these goods are typically used abroad.
With 2 to 4 kits leaving per lodge annually, young beavers encounter many inhumane situations. 60% die within 12 months. If this were not so, already growing beaver populations would more than double annually. Habitats are primarily for water eco systems benefits. Traps while problematic, have a higher "less inhumane" outcome compared to those encounters.
Coexistence is an objective, but oversights must be avoided. Municipalities are not villains, beavers will persist, taking time for due diligence is a provincial expectation. Where a number of private residences are to be immersed in cohabitation, a municipality must be thorough. Where multiple dwellings are involved multiple site visits also follow.
Beavers are hailed as nature's engineers. They build and single mindedly endeavor to propagate and cascade water as far as possible. Habitats in isolation have many positive attributes, but amid the infrastructure of humans, they are easily underestimated and easily create catastrophic results. In municipalities these are expensive, and require active and intensive oversight.
Making sure a habitat will not be harmful is for the Geotech engineer. Any purveyor of coexistence is acting irresponsibly and inhumanely, unless they insist and assist on the approval of a Geotech engineer. For a habitat, where water literally laps adjacent to home properties, observation wells can effectively determine if the water table has been raised to compromise OBC.
Without Due diligence, the risk to homes is unknown, and how uninformed proponents of the coexistence movement unintentionally do harm.
A beaver dam in close proximity to a culvert is a known hazard should a flash flood event occur. These are on the rise in Ontario.