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This area is at high water level around April/May. In the last decade, there were a couple bad years for floods.

We want to be prepared for that. We decided to rise the lot above the flood line, by a foot, to keep it safe.

The contractor helped us pad the lot, he is a super knowledgeable gentleman, Paul. He gave us a lot of good advice.

He has quite a few other projects going on, but this week he found time to work on the lot. Its coming along pretty well!

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