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Council debates beaver control, tree maintenance and larger stormwater fixes after weekend flooding
Summary
Mobile City Council members spent the meeting’s discussion time debating beaver removal limits, repeated leaf-clogging of drains and the need for large-scale stormwater investments after heavy weekend rains flooded parts of the city.
At a Mobile City Council meeting, council members and staff described heavy weekend rainfall that left streets and properties flooded and discussed short-term responses — leaf and inlet cleaning, beaver-control options — and longer-term, expensive infrastructure investments to reduce future flood impacts.
Council members said the city received hundreds of emails about beavers and asked staff to prepare a plain-language explanation of state rabies and wildlife-transport rules and cost estimates for nonlethal beaver devices. A staff member said state rules prohibit transporting live beavers within the state and described an engineered “beaver deceiver” culvert solution that has worked in…
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