a police post was opened in the park in October 1982. Construction of what was stated to be one end of the park, a stretch between Bedok Canal and the Tanah Merah Golf Club, began in 1983. In February 1985, plans to extend the park by to the Bedok Canal were announced, along with additional facilities to be built within that area. In October of that year, the $5.4 million East Coast Parkway Seafood Centre opened for business with six restaurants, with brisk business in the first few weeks of operation. To improve access to the park, and as a result of feedback from road users, the one-way service road was converted to two-way traffic in 1986. In the same year, the children's lagoon was closed due to low patronage and was filled in. A water slide was installed at the lagoon to attract more users, to little effect. To reduce confusion, the naming system for the areas in the park was changed in 1987 with the areas being named, from A to G, from west to east. By the late 1980s, the chalets at the park had become frequently utilised for vice and other questionable activities. To prevent the chalets from being used as such, in March 1990, the UDMC, which operated the chalets, limited bookings to a maximum of two chalets. In May 1990, in light of similar violations across Singapore, the eight restaurants at the seafood centre were fined, and two suspended, for poor hygiene and for breaking several health laws. Littering was also rampant within the park, with The Straits Times claiming that it had the most litter of all the parks in Singapore in 1990. In November 1990, a skateboard park was opened at Big Splash. The park was also the first area which litterbugs cleaned up when given a Corrective Work Order (CWO) under a new law, implemented in 1992. The park had also been facing considerable soil erosion, with two to seven percent of jogging and cycling paths relocated as of 1993. Nevertheless, the Parks and Recreation Department stated that the soil would stabilise. In November 1992, Sun Corporation announced plans to develop a $40 million leisure and recreation park at the lagoon. The development was handed over to Unicentral in 1993, but by 1994, the plan had run into trouble, with building plans still not approved. Plans for E-zone, a $50 million