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Watertown – Coastal Town of the 21st Century

Watertown is the first luxurious waterfront development that integrates seamlessly residences, shopping mall and public transport network. It is located by the scenic Punggol Waterway, at the new Punggol Central. Designed to suit different lifestyles, Watertown offers a range of housing types that include Suite, SOHO, Condominium, and Sky Patio. Punggol Waterway and the new communal spaces along the promenade will provide an attractive and vibrant waterfront living environment.

Watertown – Waterfront Shopping

Residents can look forward to an array of urban conveniences at the integrated retail mall, Waterway Point. The first major retail mall in Punggol, Waterway Point has a wide offerings of entertainment, dining, and retail facilities, including a 1,000-seat cinema.

AMENITIES
• Waterway Point
• Punggol Waterway
• Punggol Plaza
• Rivervale Mall
• Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre
•Punggol Park
•Punggol Reservoir and Sengkang Floating Wetland

NEARBY SCHOOLS
• Edgefield Primary School
• Nanyang Polytechnic
• Serangoon Junior College
• Meridian Junior College
•Greendale Secondary School

NEARBY MRT STATIONS
• Punggol

Watertown – Alongside Venice of Punggol

The recent opening of Punggol Waterway would allow residents in Punggol easy access to a host of recreational activities. This scenic waterway, also known as the Venice of Punggol, features a 4.2 km long waterway that offers pockets of greenery, promenades, cycling tracks and water sports where residents can engage in a number of outdoor activities. It is also in close proximity to the Seletar Country Club

Source: The Straits Times, Life! home & garden, Saturday, October 22 2011 By Tay Suan Chiang, Design Correspondent

Putting the “go” into Punggol, Singapore’s longest man-made waterway – complete with boardwalks – officially opens on 23 October 2011 but excited residents are already hitting the planks.

The $225-million feature, called My Waterway@Punggol, was constructed by damming two rivers at the east and west of Punggol, the Sungei Serangoon and Sungei Punggol, to form two reservoirs to meet Singapore’s increasing water needs.

Taking two and a half years to construct, the waterway has pedestrian and cycling paths on both banks, four footbridges, viewing platforms, exercise and waterplay areas and plenty of lush landscaping.

When Life! visited the waterway on Wednesday and Thursday, residents were already out, cycling and strolling.

They included housewife Yeo Lay Lay, 46, who was walking her dog on the 4.2km-long waterway when Life! met her on Thursday. “I read about it in the newspapers and it looks ready, so I decided to check it out. There are not many people yet and it is really beautiful here.”

Surrounded by greenery and water, it is easy to imagine that you are in a rural area, rather than a township of nearly 23,000 families. The nearby HDB flats can be seen from along the waterway, but mostly there are large fields of grass and trees on both sides. These plots of land are for future residential development.

Plans to turn Punggol into a waterfront town were first outlined in Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s 2007 National Day Rally speech.

In May 2008, a landscape masterplan competition for the waterway was announced. Local firm Surbana International Consultants was named the winner in December that year.

The waterway is not just beautiful, but it is eco-friendly, too. For example, about 3.3 million cubic metres of earth had to be removed from the site during construction. This was reused to fill low-lying areas around the waterway in preparation for future housing development sites.

Visitors will notice a shallow drain made of gravel on both banks. Called and eco-drain, it collects surface run-off and this is filtered through gravel before going into the 3m- to 4m-deep waterway.”The eco-drain works as a natural filtration system and helps to cleanse the water,” says Mr Alan Tan, principal architect and deputy managing director at the HDB, which is in charge of the project.

At the waterway’s eastern end is an area of mangroves. The remarkable thing about this is that mangroves usually grow in saltwater but the HDB has managed to grow 20 species in freshwater.

They enhance the water quality by taking in nitrates and phosphates, which decrease algae growth in the water. “They also help to promote biodiveristy. Birds, monitor lizards and mudskippers have already been spotted,”says Mr Tan.

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