marina barrage
lower seletar dam
kranji dam
there are at least three places in singapore where a dam or a barrage serves as a divide between the sea and a fresh-water reservoir. the latest addition is the marina barrage where the water behind the dam will eventually become salt-free water. the other two that i know of are at kranji and at yishun.
over at yishun - on one side of the lower seletar dam. given a choice, most people will prefer to fish in the sea than in the reservoir.
until last year, there were two make-shift structures in the sea off yishun avenue 1 where some some kind of business was still being conducted. today, these two derelicts are still around but the occupants have all moved out. like the fishing pond at khatib bongsu, these wooden structures near the lower seletar dam will eventually be cleared.
evidence that it was open to the public is the signboard that says "walk do not run". then there was the improvised toilet, where everything was deposited in the sea at high tide. the pail was used for scooping water from the sea, again at high tide. a small altar with some taoist gods has been left behind.
the sea off the lower seletar dam used to yield a lot of fish but ever since the construction of the road bridge linking the mainland to pulau punggol barat, the fish seemed to have moved somewhere else. one angler lamented: before the bridge was constructed, there was at one time as many as eighty regular anglers trying to land a catch at the sea off the lower seletar dam. these days, the number has dwindled to a handful.
