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President Donald Trump said Saturday night that he was likely to drain the Lincoln Memorials Reflecting Pool again, as workers contend with paint peeling off its surface and algae blooming in the wake of his $14 million effort to resurface it.
The president made his announcement, after what he said was a meeting with contractors while he was at Camp David in Maryland for the weekend. It comes 16 days after the government began refilling the pool following a renovation that Trump had said would result in clean water and could last for 100 years.
Since pieces of peeling paint started floating to the waters surface earlier this week, the Interior Department has not responded to questions about the paint and why the pool surface is separating.
The agency said in a statement Wednesday that it is treating the pool with hydrogen peroxide and high-tech nanobubble ozone technology to limit the spread of algae.
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Lovie777
(24,422 posts)adults need to call the experts and scientists to fix it.
The Madcap
(2,155 posts)Well, I guess that'll increase the amount of free oxygen atoms in the water once a bit of solar energy hits the water's surface. I don't know if it will help, though, as I'm neither a chemist nor a botanist.
allegorical oracle
(6,678 posts)warnings on the sides of the white containers at poolside. Hope nobody flicks a lit match in the water.
orthoclad
(5,050 posts)again. Rinse and repeat, eh?
cornball 24
(1,588 posts)Mysterian
(6,725 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:44 PM - Edit history (1)
C_U_L8R
(49,621 posts)What a ridiculous person. A complete buffoon.
pfitz59
(13,047 posts)The Capitol is a shambles