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    RISING TO THE CHALLENGE

    Apr 12, 2019 3 minutes
    By Ritchie Wilson
    Photographs: Ritchie Wilson

    Our house is built across the road from a flood-prone river. When we applied for a building permit, the local drainage board asked us to make the floor level above the 50-year flood level. So the house sits on cantilevered piles, driven up to 6m into the ground, which lift it more than a metre above the section. There are stairs to the front door and to the back deck, which I bought second hand from a private girls’ school.

    The stairs were the fire escape from the

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