Bedok

Bedok /bəˈdɒk/ (Chinese: 勿洛, Tamil: பிடோ), officially Bedok Town, is an urban planning area and residential town located in the eastern part of Singapore.

As the most populated town in Singapore, Bedok is densely packed with a large amount of housing developments. Most public housing estates are located in the east of Bedok, encircling the areas around Bedok Reservoir. Private residences are also prevalent in the area, dotting the western and south-western portions of the town.

Etymology and early history

The name, "Bedok" can trace its origins back to 1604, in Manuel Gomes de Erédia's map of Singapore. The map refers to the Bedok River (present day Sungei Bedok) as Sune Bodo.

Bedok is one of the early native place names in existence around the time of Sir Stamford Raffles. In the first comprehensive map of Singapore Island completed by Frankin and Jackson and reproduced in John Crawfurd's 1828 book, the place name appears on the south east coast of the island as a river, Badok S. (Sungei Bedok), around the "small red cliff", a part of present Tanah Merah.

Bedok Reservoir

Bedok Reservoir (Chinese: 勿洛蓄水池; pinyin: Wùluò Xùshuǐchí) is a reservoir in the eastern part of Singapore, to the north of Bedok New Town. The reservoir has a surface area of 880,000 m², and a capacity of 12.8 million m³. The mean depth of the reservoir is 9 m, with a maximum depth of 18.2 m. The shoreline length is 4.3 km.

History

Bedok Reservoir was constructed under the Sungei Seletar/Bedok Water Scheme, completed in 1986. The scheme involved the damming of Sungei Seletar to form Lower Seletar Reservoir, the creation of Bedok Reservoir from a former sand quarry between 1966 and 1972 and the construction of Bedok Waterworks. The earth excavated was used for East Coast Reclamation in the 1970s (HDB Annual Reports). Its unique feature was the construction of nine stormwater collection stations to tap surface runoff from the surrounding urbanised catchments. Eight of these collection stations are ponds located at Yishun, Tampines, Bedok and Yan Kit new towns.

Reservoir

Bedok Reservoir is now open to water sports activities such as wakeboarding, sailing, fishing, canoeing and kayaking. This follows the Singapore Sports Council's (SSC's) efforts to allow water sport enthusiasts to make use of the various reservoirs for activities which do not compromise the quality of the water. The programme kicked off with the HSBC Wakeboard World Cup Singapore 2004, held at Bedok Reservoir on 30–31 October 2004 and this was the first international water sports event to be held at a local reservoir.

Bedok Mall

Coordinates: 1°19′28″N 103°55′48″E / 1.3244°N 103.9299°E / 1.3244; 103.9299

Bedok Mall (Chinese: 勿落广场) is a large suburban shopping mall in Bedok, Singapore and part of a mixed development compromising of retail and residential development that is integrated with a bus interchange, which opened on 30 November 2014.

Located at the heart of Bedok, the integrated retail and residential development compromises of a 4 storey lifestyle and family shopping mall and eight 8 storey residential towers called Bedok Residences.

It is the first major shopping mall, located in the heart of the Bedok town centre.

Bedok MRT is linked to the mall via an underground passageway via its lowest level, and the Bedok Bus Interchange, which is located on level 2 of the mall. It is the first air conditioned bus interchange in Singapore to be above ground level.

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