So I'm currently trapping an area with kinda joining beaver ponds. The kinda joining is because one is above the other about 15 yards apart. The top one feeds the bottom one. The owner of the top pond wanted all beavers gone. I think they are now.
In the middle of the dam (unreachable by foot) there seems to be good sized break in it to where I can hear water flowing, top pond is about 16 inches lower than 2 days ago.
If all the beaver are gone from the top pond would the bottom pond beavers make a hole in the dam to fill there's?
Just seems that I heard if a beaver hears flowing water they're usually on top of it to make it stop.

Why cant u get to the break in the dam? How far apart are the two ponds? Likely same beavers using both ponds.

I've never known beaver to make a dam breach.

Just because of how swampy it is. I'm not a small guy, its a pretty skinny dam, and all the ways I tried to get to it i end up not finding bottom and the deepest I've gotten is about 6 inches under the top of my chest waders. Don't have a canoe to take there.

Time will tell. Give it a week.