Information-Kallang River

Kallang River
In pre-colonial times, the original inhabitants of Singapore, the aboriginal biduanda orang kallang, lived in the swamps at the mouth of the Kallang River, and fished from their boats, seldom venturing out into the open sea. At the time when Sir Stamford Raffle landed in Singapore in 1819, half of the populations of 1,000 were orang kallang.

Kallang River is the place, too, where in the early days the Bugis traders from Sulawesi (Celebes) unloaded their cargoes of spices and tortoise shells, gold dust and slaves from their palari or their leteh leteh. These sailing boats were a common sight off the sea front even up to the 1960s.

Today, this long, winding river has little or no industry except for a short distance, although a new industrial estate  at Kallang Basin, near Kallang Bahru, has been built.

Future Development of Kallang River :P
Kallang River is now transformed into part of the water catchment area for the Marina Reservour. A new dam, the Marina Barrage, was built at the mouth of the Marina Channel at Marina south. With the completion of the Marina Barrage in 2008, the entire region comprising the basins of the SIngapore River Rochor River, Geylang River and Kallang River will be transformed into a water catchment area.

Extra (useless) information :B
In June 2005, the body parts of murder victim Liu Hong Mei were found near the confluence between the river and its tributary, the Rochor River.