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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to last Saturday's article, 'First city reservoir opens'.
Taking nothing from the team that produced a truly monumental work of engineering, the headline is technically incorrect.
Singapore's first city reservoir is the Fort Canning Reservoir built in 1926 on Fort Canning Hill, on the site of an artillery barracks and parade ground.
Fort Canning Hill was originally called Government Hill, and later renamed after Lord Charles Canning who was then governor-general of India.
The construction of the fort in the 19th century required the levelling of the hill to form a 3ha useable area.
With Fort Fullerton, Fort Teregah and Fort Faber, Fort Canning formed part of Singapore's 19th century fortifications.
Most of the fort was demolished to allow construction of the reservoir.
Although nominally only a service reservoir and unlike the large impounding reservoirs, it should nonetheless rightly take the title of 'first city reservoir'. Dr Douglas Ong

 

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[zhihau]

I REFER to last Saturday's article, 'First city reservoir opens'.
Taking nothing from the team that produced a truly monumental work of engineering, the headline is technically incorrect.
Singapore's first city reservoir is the Fort Canning Reservoir built in 1926 on Fort Canning Hill, on the site of an artillery barracks and parade ground.
Fort Canning Hill was originally called Government Hill, and later renamed after Lord Charles Canning who was then governor-general of India.
The construction of the fort in the 19th century required the levelling of the hill to form a 3ha useable area.
With Fort Fullerton, Fort Teregah and Fort Faber, Fort Canning formed part of Singapore's 19th century fortifications.
Most of the fort was demolished to allow construction of the reservoir.
Although nominally only a service reservoir and unlike the large impounding reservoirs, it should nonetheless rightly take the title of 'first city reservoir'. Dr Douglas Ong

what Government Hill? before the British came, the hill was known as Bukit Larangan... otherwise, the part on Fort Canning reservoir is factually true, it should rightfully be named as the first water storage within the city centre. Good job there Dr Ong. *claps*