Lorong Halus is an area in

Pasir Ris Pasir Ris ( or ) is a Planning Areas of Singapore, planning area and New towns of Singapore, residential town located in the East Region, Singapore, East Region of Singapore. It is bordered by Tampines and Paya Lebar to the south, Sengkang to ...

surrounding a road of the same name. The road leads to industrial buildings and farms in Pasir Ris Farmway. It starts from the

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(TPE) and ends at a pier. There is a road from Lorong Halus that leads to the Lorong Halus Wetland. The

wetland A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor ( anoxic) processes taking place, especially ...

treats the water flowing through it, which was a former

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. The nearest MRT station to Lorong Halus is

Pasir Ris MRT station Pasir Ris MRT station () is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore), Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East West MRT line, East West line (EWL) in Pasir Ris, Singapore. Situated along Pasir Ris Central adjacent to Pasir Ris Bus Inter ...

while the nearest LRT station is Riviera LRT station.

History

Lorong Halus means “Thin/Tiny Lane” in Malay. In the 1970s, Lorong Halus was predominantly a farming area with several Malay rural villages such as Kampong Sungei Blukar and Kampong Teban, ponds and coconut and rubber

plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...

s. A large part of the area had formerly been used as a sewage ground (for night-soil collection) and a refuse dump. The sewage ground was shut down in the 1980s following the end of the local night-soil industry in Singapore at around that time, while the dumping ground was closed down on 31 March 1999, and since then all of Singapore's garbage has been sent to Pulau Semakau Landfill (incinerated beforehand) just off the mainland's southern coast. Today, much of the area has been restored to its original natural state as a coastal wetland open to the general public.

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Lorong Halus Wetland
{{Places in Singapore East Region, Singapore Places in Singapore Pasir Ris

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