Originally Posted by
francislee
Just to share my story of staying in Punggol.
I've used to stay in Punggol for 5 years in beside greendale secondary school at high storey facing Malaysia. The current buildings occupied by Central Christian Church, Punggol Breeze, Blk 632C-636B, Punggol Spectra in front of my HDB were not there when I first moved in. I was able to have a clear view the sea and Malaysia and on and off, you can see big ships passing by and occasionally at night, I was able to see fireworks in Malaysia during festive seasons. However, in front of my HDB, during the daytime, you could see a factory with a tall chimny releasing white fumes all time round (24 hours). At night, very often you would see two big red chimny to the extreme left burning with big fire and the smell that was described is usually very distinct at night (especially in our underground carpark), especially when there is a NW wind. We have to resort to closing the window most of the time when sleeping. Furthermore, my house is always covered with black dust on the floor, if we do not mop our floor every week. The dust most likely has accumlate due to dirty particles from these burning (I have to resort to closing the windows whenever the fire burns on the other side).
After living there for 5 years and having got my 2 kids, I decided that it was too much a health hazard for my family and had since moved out of punggol. I guess for those not facing north directly and not at high storey may not have this issue.
My father-in-law have also shared with me that he know of ppl who have moved their factory to the other side of the country when they know that in singapore, it would not be possible to setup these factory due to the environmental hazard they poise in our country.
Try to go to Punggol Jetty at night, you should be able to see the big fire from the 2 Chimney, if you are lucky.