Niverville’s town council has become aware of a new problem in the lakes of local developments—muskrats.
The trouble, CAO Eric King says, is their sheer numbers and the damage they do to the lake borders as they burrow into the ground, causing it to cave in on itself.
At this point, the town believes there are about 100 muskrats taking up residence in the Fifth Avenue Estate lakes, 200 in The Highlands lakes, and another 200 at the wetlands. For this reason, council will be renting traps and two town employees have volunteered their time to catch and release the muskrats to another area outside of Niverville.
“They are [wearing away] at the banks and eating the bulrushes, and so they’re slowly destroying the natural environment,” says King. “So we’re moving them away.”
