Part A

History

Jurong Lake is located amid the densely populated Jurong new town, next to the Chinese Garden MRT station in the western part of Singapore. Before it was developed, Jurong was a mangrove swamp with some plantation farms, fish and prawn ponds and crocodile-infested rivers. The area was developed into an industrial estate in 1961. Residential and recreational amenities were built in the next two decades to attract workers and to facilitate the expansion of the estate. Jurong Lake was formed with the damming of Sungei Jurong further downstream. In September 2010, the ABC Waters site at Jurong Lake was launched. The site featured a 235-metre-boardwalk and fishing deck, as well as a stage and viewing gallery along the south-western promenade. There are dedicated lanes for competitive rowing and a water activity-based centre operated by the People’s Association.

Site Highlights

Boardwalk with wetland plants
Visitors can take a walk along the boardwalk, which features wetlands that help to cleanse the water and maintain good water quality in the reservoir. The wetlands are also home to a rich biodiversity of fishes, birds, dragonflies, butterflies and amphibians.

Fishing deck
This dedicated fishing deck is a hit among fishing enthusiasts. Anglers are encouraged to use only artificial bait to ensure that the quality of the reservoir water is not affected.

Fountain
The 20-metre-high fountain adds to the beauty of the lake, both by day and night.

Adopters' Activities

	Yuan Ching Secondary actively uses their adopted site as an outdoor class room for project work. One of projects they worked on was studying how the wetland plants have a positive effect on quality of water at Jurong Lake. Other than that, the school frequents Jurong Lake for their dragon boat trainings and annual cross country run.
	On World Water Day 2012, Taman Jurong CC and T-Net Club @ Taman Jurong hosted the biggest-ever Mass Water Filtration Exercise for the Singapore Book of Records, with more than 1000 participants! The simple exercise offered a glimpse of the hard work and effort that goes into the water treatment process – from raw source to the water we have from the taps. This exercise aims to help people better appreciate our precious water resources and value the clean drinking water we have flowing from our taps.
	Singapore Civil Defence Force, CD 4th Division, CDA, and BRTC regularly lend a helping hand to ensure that Jurong Lake is kept clean and free of litter. They conduct clean ups every quarter of the year at the lake.

On our trip to Jurong Lake Park, we saw many different organisms, such which can be very commonly found, some others which some of us has yet to see. Even though we come over to Jurong Lake Park for our 2.4km run, JLP is still quite foreign to some of us. People who visit JLP are of all ages, in the morning, some nearby residents will come over for a morning jog, some older people will come here for their morning exercise, facing the lake, which reflects the scenery. Some students come to JLP for school runs, some come for science experiment or just a class outing, others go to JLP to play. JLP is a great place to come with your family members.

Part B

Grouping and naming of organisms

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Part C

Part C
During our trip there, we found many small communities,which is made of up a habitat and many populations of organisms ,such as trees ( Including the insects living on it )and pond with its aquatic organisms . Jurong Lake Park(JLP) is a small place with many exotic creatures there.Trees were habitat to ants there and even some insects . It also serves as a habitat to mosses and ferns there . The water there , unfortunately , is muddy (although clear from the picture below ) from all the rubbish thrown by park users . Many fishes are still able to live there despite water conditions not suitable for them . We observed that there was not enough plants for it to sustain it food and oxygen supply , probably due to the dirty water . We concluded that the organisms at the lake were soon going to deplete as insufficient oxygen is provided for the organisms there and the fishes there are going to compete for the food .
The lake and trees at JLP

We felt that ants were crawling up our legs . We indeed got a surprise after taking a closer look at the ground and we discovered a disgusting scene there , a frog , a dead one .




 We also saw some pleasant sight there with some flowers and bees

Unfortunately, we found a stray dog there , probably left by someone . I just want to adopt it

Part D

Impacts on Jurong Lake Park

Over the years, Jurong has been developing and that being said, there's a lot of constructions going on, even for the coming future. The development of Jurong may cause a water pollution by the lake of Jurong Lake Park which is place of water source for the people living near there, soil erosion occurs and pollutes the water, Jurong Lake Park isn't small so it will cost a lot of money, time and effort to clean the lake if that happens. Jurong area will have more and more high rise buildings and flats, the lake will be used for water activities which is possibly going to cause some pollution of water as well. There are even some organisms in the lake, so if pollution was to happen it will cause the organisms to die and eventually cause more and more pollution! Jurong area is going to have more hotels too, it also translates to more foreigners visiting Jurong and not missing out Jurong Lake Park since it is pretty near from all the hotels, some foreigners may not understand the laws of no littering and may just throw random rubbish into the lake, it this continues, the lake is going to be even more polluted.

Part E

{Conservation efforts at Jurong Lake Park}


JLP is authorised under National Environment Board(NEA). NEA Staff and Personnal have been assigned along the waters to pick up litter on the water sirface by using boats. This does not only reduce the possibility of water pollution but also improve the appearance of the lake so it is pleasening to admire. Other staff have also been assigned to vaccuum and sweep off litters from the nearby shore. This is to reduce the possibility of the litter to pollute the waters of they do touch the water surface. One other conservative effort done by the NEA is that they have placed dustbins and recycle bin scattered all of the park. This may encourage more users to throw away their litter instead of irresponsibly literring.  Another authority body, PUB -Singapore's national water agency, have also put up signs to discourage users of JLP to  throw litter into the lake,  from swimming, do fishing, or pour chemicals into the lake. By abiding by these rules, users may now enjoy a better relaxing experience at JLP if they are responsible citizens.

Part F : Credits & Acknowledgements

Part A, D and F done by Vicky

Part B, C and Linoit done by Xing Yu

Part E done by Zulhilmi

Editor and Filatable done by Anjanah

Sources : http://abcwaterslearningtrails.sg/web/jurong-lake.php

          Photo credits to respectful owners, they were               mostly found on Google