Yes James. Beavers typically burrow into the banks of drainage ditches and streams around here. I think I have only seen one actual lodge built in my life. It was up in the shallow end of an irrigation reservoir and was left high and dry each summer as the water level was drawn down.
All these beavers (or muskratz6) actually care about is that the entrance to their den is below water level, so the predators don't enter.
