THE WALL

So the house is on a creek, and we mean to flood the creek right up against the house.  Hence the name of this blog.  We felt that concrete would create a much better dam than concrete block, so the entire east side of the foundation, above the helical piers, is 12" poured concrete.  We also used a water-impermeable admixture called Hycrete to prevent infiltration over time.
With the wall finally formed and braced off, we began the pour.  Every bit of concrete in this house had to be pumped.  We also filled the cells of most of the concrete block with the leftover concrete from the poured wall.