DrAndys Wooden Cottage in the ricefields

[DrAndy]

Not to scare you Dr.A but.... we had a near flood situation in 2005! Only reason it did not happen to us was our xx truckloads of dirt/earth that was put on the land before the house was build. Neighbours on both sides walked in waistheigh water.
Our house is placed next to wast ricefields -outskirts of a village, land sloping ....in short lots of "run-off" for water but still it was a very close call.... old locals could remember once before in the sixties something similar.... Water in those quantities.

I'm not scared Ebeth, the land around the house is already built up

if you notice, I was asking on another thread the best way to get earth as we wish to build up another field

where did you get your earth, and how much per cu metre did it cost?