The other end of the reclaimed land around Marina Bay was to provide space for the expansion of the city centre. Today, East Coast Park comprises 185 hectares of parkland and a scenic 15-km beach. The strip parallel to Marine Parade Road with the highrises is land that has been reclaimed from the sea. The East Coast district of Singapore with Marine Parade stretching from the flyover to the lagoon near Bedok Jetty. Parallel to the expressway, a linear park was built to provide recreational space for residents. To link the housing estates as well as the commercial centres in Siglap, Joo Chiat and Bedok to the city, the East Coast Parkway was constructed along the newly reclaimed coast.

In the east coast, housing estates such as Marine Parade and Katong sprang up, providing accommodation for an estimated 100,000 residents. The reclaimed lands were used largely for commercial and residential purposes. The total cost of the East Coast project was $613 million and the entire operation was carried out around the clock, with headlands constructed at regular intervals off the reclaimed coast to protect the newly formed shoreline. Dubbed the Great Reclamation, the project was undertaken by the Housing and Development Board (HDB), one of three government agencies appointed to carry out land reclamation, and it added a 1,525-hectare tract along the southeastern coast of Singapore.īut before any work began, a pilot project was carried out by HDB in 1963 to reclaim 48 acres in the Bedok area and work on the East Coast Reclamation site began officially in 1966 and continued for the next 30 years over seven phases. The first major post-Independence reclamation project was the East Coast Reclamation. (Photo source: TheHomeGround Asia) The great east coast reclamation

Two more areas, seen on Google satellite map, also had sandbags lining the beaches and breakwater barriers built.Ĭan it be that the coastal areas in the east have eroded? This sandbag structure acts as temporary reefs, groynes, breakwaters, and headlands or revetments on sand beaches to prevent erosion.

Instead, sandbags a storey high lined what was the beach between Bedok Jetty and East Coast Lagoon as joggers ran by the strip on April 2. There is no more sandy beach at the East Coast.

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