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<br /> <br />Hager Hinge Company <br />Hunting Lodge, raised <br />on piers of concrete <br />blocks, St, Charles <br />County, Missouri <br /> <br />The Hager Hinge Company raised an existing hunting lodge <br />in St. Charles County, Missouri, 8 feet above ground level <br />following a Mississippi River flood in 1973. This represented an <br />elevation higher than the 1973 flood. Since that time, the river, <br />located about I mile from the lodge, has again flooded, putting <br />as much as 2 feet of water on the property. While the building is <br />elevated well above record flood heights, it is still 3 feet below <br />the I OO-year flood elevation. Duration of flooding for the area <br />. can be as long as a month or more. <br /> <br />The lodge itself is of wood frame construction. It was placed <br />on a series of piers made of I6-inch-square by 8-inch-high <br />concrete blocks; the piers rest on concrete footings (Figure A 17). <br />Cost to raise the structure (excluding cost of materials and labor <br />to build the footings and piers) is estimated at $3000 to $4000. <br /> <br />It should be noted that an adjacent lodge was also raised. The <br />lodge's fireplace and its foundation were raised, too. <br /> <br /> <br />..~ '*",,- - .~~'---ww .-- <br /> <br /> <br />Figure A11. Hunting lodge raised on piers of concrete blocks <br /> <br />40 <br />