Cross Island Site Investigation Summary draft 2

“Nature Group Seeks More Information on Impact of Cross Island Site Investigations" from Today Online’s website (2018), nature enthusiasts groups are inviting the community to submit queries to the Land Transport Authority (LTA), hoping to get more information on the results of drilling works done at Macritchie forest for the upcoming Cross Island MRT line. Earlier, LTA stated that camera traps spotted the presence of animals. According to Ms Chole Tan, project manager of Love Our Macritchie Forest, nine parties have submitted questions about the possibility of LTA publicly releasing the outcomes of their monitoring programmes. Drilling of boreholes are used find out soil and rock conditions influencing the decision of the tracks going under the nature reserve or around it. An assessment was done before works started determining the environmental impact if mitigation measures were taken. But there is a lack of evidence on the effectiveness of mitigation measures. Second phase of the assessment was done to foresee the outcome of constructing and operating the MRT line.