They're invading the bayous.
"They'll come out at night to feed, to eat," Tony says.
They reroute the rivers.
"They'll flood crops."
And- in Louisiana alone, they've caused millions of dollars in damage.
"The water can't drain." says, "it'll just back up the water."
It sounds like a horror story about some swamp monster waiting to prey on it's next victim.
It's the common beaver.
Due to rising urbanization and a nearly extinct fur industry, the rodent is now building dams in public drainage systems.
For local public works departments, removal and reconstruction costs are now adding-up.
"It can add-up to be quite a bit," said.
Dwight LeBlanc is a trapper for USDA. He says some surveys post more than $13-million of damage dealt by beavers in Louisiana.
Drainage for a reservoir in St. Landry parish has had to be checked a number of times this week.
The beavers built a dam- covering the drainage pipe. When trappers removed the dam, the beavers simply began to build another one.
"They're the best engineers there are in the world." says. "They can build a dam in one night and if you destroy it, the next night it will be built back."
Some parishes even have full-time trappers on the payroll to get-rid of the beavers but the damages are still racking-up.
"It's just an on-going problem." says, "it'll never go away."
A problem that could be flooding the bayou in your own backyard.


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