Monday, November 16, 2020

Rediscover Singapore - Lorong Halus Wetland

Lorong Halus was once a night soil treatment facility referring to the bucket system used during the early years being processed here before the modern sanitation system, it was also the last disposal station for our garbage which was closed in 1987. During 1970 - 1999 the area was used a garbage landfill which covered an area of about 100 football field. Today the Lorong Halus Wetland was just a fraction of the original size roughly about 18 football field which in turn serve as a bio water treatment system and it serves as our 17th reservoir by damning up the Serangoon River now it attracts locals and foreigner alike to the wetland a long deep orange bridge takes visitors over the Serangoon River toward Coney Island, Punggol and Pasir Ris.