The Youth Olympic Games rowing competition will be held at the newly completed Marina Barrage.
The Marina Barrage is a dam in Singapore built across the Marina Channel between the reclaimed lands of Marina East and Marina South. It was officially opened on 1 November 2008.
The Marina Barrage was conferred the Superior Achievement Award - the highest honour of the competition for the best project entry - at the AAEE Annual Awards Luncheon held in Washington, DC, USA on 6 May 2009. The Marina Barrage beat 33 other entries to take home the top prize in this year's competition organised by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE), becoming the second project outside of USA to win the award, in the last decade.
The S$226 million project turns Marina Bay and Kallang Basin into a new downtown freshwater Marina Reservoir. It provides water supply, flood control and a new lifestyle attraction. This structure will provide flood control by changing the tide flow into the barrage. The flood control is necessary due to the fact that Singapore receives over 100 inches of rain.
The station has several notable features. In can pump up to 6.3 billion gallons of water per day. The barrage also allows for a consistent water level regardless of tidal flows. The facility also has a 13-megawatt power generation station.