Abandoned reservoir off Telok Blangah Road discovered

[Stooky]

 

 

 

By Melody Zaccheus

SINGAPORE - A reservoir the size of three badminton courts dating back to 1905 has been discovered by the National Heritage Board.

Located off Telok Blangah Road, and not marked out in maps today, it served as a source of water for the Tanjong Pagar Dock.

The reservoir, which is an oasis of calm and a green pocket in the built up area, also used to be a swimming pool during the Japanese Occupation, according to Japanese maps of Singapore. Remnants of a diving board and a bathing area still stand today.

The place, known to some as the Keppel Hill Reservoir, made the news when two soldiers and a 17-year-old boy drowned there on two occasions in 1936 and 1948.

The 2m deep pool of water, which has a working filtration system today, was discovered by a team of researchers from the board in February.

The team spent four months piecing together more details about the site from old maps and news stories. A documentary on the place will be uploaded on its website on Thursday.

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/abandoned-reservoir-telok-blangah-road-discovered-201409#3

[Evillusion]

looks more like a pond......hahaha!

[Ktglfc]

How was it abandoned in the first place and till decades down the road, nobody knows?! Weird ..

 

Anyway, it's a national heritage leh .. Should be Preserved for historical and educational purposes

[Pisces69]

How was it abandoned in the first place and till decades down the road, nobody knows?! Weird ..

 

Anyway, it's a national heritage leh .. Should be Preserved for historical and educational purposes

 

 

Ya. SG so small n Telok Blangah already so populated n nobody knew abt this place????

 

WOW really surprised.

 

What other surprises r hiding in SG. Wil we one day find Sasquatch or an alien spaceship or a Tasmanian Devil in our forests even?????

[Blackyv]

What cock talking?... They know history of somemore drowned there but don't know the existence of it?.. Now discovered it?... I'm lost....

[Furrynadz]

watch this video and see the date for truth

its just another "claim credit stunt" for API work

 

 

Edited September 17, 2014 by Furrynadz

[Ender]

Interesting. Wonder if it is accessible to public?

[Furrynadz]

yes

just need to climb up and mozzie repellant

the location is at the map, just where the access point is

[Dafansu]

yes

just need to climb up and mozzie repellant

the location is at the map, just where the access point is

 

Straits Times showing another location. Nearer to wishart road, Keppel Hill

[Furrynadz]

possible

API didnt release publically the location

that whole area alot of abandon "plots" or watever u want to name them

[Myxilplix]

API video got show the reservoir with the diving board etc.

[Dafansu]

possible

API didnt release publically the location

that whole area alot of abandon "plots" or watever u want to name them

 

TODAY paper also showing Wishart area same as Straits Times

[Iceman81]

Just posting what my friend posted in fb.

 

http://mothership.sg/2014/09/the-abandoned-reservoir-that-national-heritage-board-discovered-has-been-on-google-maps-all-along/

[Count-Bracula]

Should be haunted bah?

[Watwheels]

I think what they meant that this pool is not in their archives. They realised it's missing on the map archive thus their "discovery".

[Ktglfc]

Interesting. Wonder if it is accessible to public?

 

Just don't get drown in the "reservoir".. and nobody will know how to help you, cos nobody can find you

SPF and SCDF will probably need to update their location map le

[Scion]

well, i believe there are some areas in SG that are overlooked

 

maybe not discovered (or rediscovered), but due to abandonment for decades, they are forgotten and no longer in the official records

 

eg this small piece of forest near TPY

 

i think they discovered the tomb of Seah Eu Chin (one of Singapore's pioneers) inside the forest a couple of years back

 

they discovered because the land was going to be developed for MRT line

[Vid]

Wah seh... other than WW2 bombs, Singapore still can discover new places.