Biology Of Fishes-Alexandra Canal, Singapore

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Alexandra Canal, Singapore Alexandra Canalize is a 1.2-kilometer long useable and concrete canal in Singapore which stretches from Tanglin Route to Delta Route and Prince Charlemagne Crescent. The canalize has been converted into a amateur terminus arsenic a parting of the Active, Beautiful and Clear (ABC) Water Programme undertaken by the Public Utilities Table of Singapore. Chronicle Alexandra N is i of the amphetamine reaches of the Singapore River and Sungei Pandan, comely the Singapore River after Kim Seng Bridge. The 1.2 kilometer long canal stretches from Tanglin Route to Delta Road. Reconstruction of Alexandra Canal between Tanglin Route and Kim Seng Route took localise from 1997 to 2008 to better the morphologic condition of the canal and to facilitate flooding n the catchment. In 2011, a 250-metre stretching of Alexandra Canal, betwixt Sion Route and Kim Seng Road, was reconstructed to improve drainage and forbid floods. A 200m stretch of the open watercourse nigh Tanglin Road was decked over to make a h2o cascade and h2o play area. The bedeck besides provides a dot from which the public can have a vista of the waterway downstream. Educational Hut The Educational Hut's info panels were developed by students from the Digital Prowess and Manga Club of Crescent Girls' Schooltime (CGS) inward collaborationism with the PUB. These panels stir along water-related topics such as the 4 Subject Taps and Abc Waters Programme, and highlight the importance of keeping our waterways clean. Wetlands One of the Abc Waters design features astatine Alexandra N is the serial of wetland systems and plants. These wetland plants are located at the decked-over stretch of the canalize near Tanglin Road. Irrigate is pumped from the canalise into the wetlands, where sediments, nutrients and other impurities ar distant done the plants and filter media. The tempered sporting water is so channelled to the rockscape garden and backward into the canal, eventually finish up in Marina Reservoir. The wetland plants besides deck the landscape, and do as a raw, habitat for fishes, dragonflies and other wildlife. Rainwater Gardens and Bioretention Swales At Alexandra Canal, rain from the nearby paved areas ilk footpaths gets channelled into the rainwater garden. Impurities in the rainwater are distant when it passes done the

plants and the soil. The filtered h2o flows into Alexandra Canal, finally termination up inward Marina Reservoir. Bioretention swales are drains deep-rooted with plants which testament strain and line rainwater into the s drainage system. The plants and soil layers inward the swale deed as a rude, strain to sieve away impurities thus that clean water flows into the waterway. Adopters' Activities Adopters' Activities •7GVFVçG2g&öÒ4„”¢ellock Primary Schooltime and Crescent Girls School got their custody marked-up for a upright make in Jan 2011 where they got together with the community to do wetland planting astatine Alexandra Canal as part of a pre-launch of the Active, Beautiful and Clean Waters (ABC Waters) Programme. Adopters' Activities ”7&W66VçBv—ls Junior-grade School created a radio learning train compatible with iPhone and iPad, targeted at amphetamine elementary school students and lower secondary schooltime students in 2011. Subsequently, Crescent Girls' trained a radical of student facilitators who conducted the shack for students from other schools and the community during Humankind Water Daytime 2012 and Singapore External Irrigate Week H2o Showcases 2012. References External links Media related to Alexandra Canal, Singapore at Wikimedia Commons

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