Donald Trump’s $14 million Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation couldn’t stop algae from blooming in the D.C. heat and turning the water a murky shade of green once again.
The unsightly hue plagued the pool just in time for an estimated 125,000 people to descend on Washington for Trump’s “Freedom 250” UFC fights on the White House lawn for his birthday on Sunday — despite work crews spreading chlorine pellets to try to deter algae growth.
The Washington Post reported that the bloom “expanded between Wednesday and Thursday amid wet and warm weather.”
Wow - you mean painting it blue doesn’t prevent algae growth? Did no one ask literally anyone who owns a pool what happens to their pools that have blue-colored linings when they don’t use chlorine or some other filtering/chemical/salt solution?
They probably introduced it from that cheap rotting paint they used.
Yeah… Nice money laundering project…
Anyway, where is the rest of the Epstein Files?
Here in the IL state capitol we have fountains that are painted black in the bottom.
I was told it keeps the birds out.
Bird poo gonna nasty up fountain water.
I dunno if it helps algea. But it definitely does keep most birds out.
Black makes more sense and looks nice. It makes the water look aesthetic.
Sounds like an excuse not to pay the painters lol
Would this best be described as a *plague *of algae perhaps?
Another loss for ol skinbag, or should i say another involuntary investment loss by the taxpayers.
He’s like the Titanic, dragging a whole country down, Donaldo di Crapio.
It wasn’t a loss for him or the pool guys, they got paid with our tax dollars. Everyone loses but the losers setting this shit up.
Didn’t they just do a paint job? Was anything done to try to put in or update water circulation and filtration? I guess I’d expect nothing less than what we had before if all they did was to drain the water and repaint it and re-fill it…
Also, 125,000 people? Who are the idiots going to the event DonOLD threw for himself, I wonder?
Yeah, the entire underlying problem are the pipes that lead to the pool as many have tried to tell him. The pipes leading to and from the treatment machine need to be fully replaced. When the pool was renovated in 2012, the pipes installed were for the wrong application. The land the pool sits on is formerly wetlands. So special attention is required for putting in pipes in that area. This wasn’t done and so the soil is literally crushing the pipes allowing water treatment to leak into the surrounding soil.
This is why they’ve had to have people physically go out there and manually treat the pool. The problem is that the treatment is never making to the pool in a large enough volume to make a difference. But the manual treatment requires people in large “unsightly” protective gear to wade through the pool and treat the water. Then they have to rope off the section that was treated to ensure no one tried to enter the pool until the treatment has diluted enough.
Trump keeps doing the thing Trump is known for, cutting corners that ultimately mean more money is spent long term. The problem is the pipes. They need to be replaced. But then the pool has to be closed for large construction and the short term cost goes up. So Trump keeps just putting a band-aid on it over and over and over again like the idiot he is.
He’s been told what the issue is and what the fix is. He just wants a short-term “fix” so he looks good. He’s not actually interested in fixing the pool. The pipes have to be ripped out and new ones installed. That is the only true fix.
This sounds personal in some way. Know someone who bid on it?
I doubt they do. Want to know why? Because nobody fucking bid on it.
It is personal to me because it was a no-bid contract for under $2 million that increased by over 700% to $14 million of money directly from taxpayers. This is my money.
Want to try to defend that, or…?
Are you familiar with large capital projects and how much a project funded by public money is allowed to increase by legally? Because I am.
It’s 20% the original contract amount in most places. Not 700%.
I’m just trying to understand how you know pipes are the problem? I ain’t defending shit, but your speaking with authority and in depth knowledge. Is it bull shit? If you think I’m defending anything here that’s just projection on your part.
It’s been all over the news.
This sounds like you’re a conservative on Lemmy. Fuckin weird.
Lol? Question someone speaking as if they have inside knowledge makes you conservative?
I really hope you’re just a bot.Q
Don’t you mean Trump’s swamp?
Is Trump going to bust out from an outhouse to Smash Mouth playing in the background for his birthday?
Pretty typical of a new pool to bloom algae when filled. You have to dump a bunch of chlorine or bromine in to prevent it. A competent company that does large pool/ponds would have a plan to deal with it.
This is a known issue with the reflecting pool, it did the same thing immediately after a £100m rebuild under Obama.
Why did Obama pay in pounds? That’s suspicious…
Given the sheer surface area of that pool it’s gotta be a nightmare to maintain too. Sunlight cripples chlorine.
Not if you CYA with cyanouraic acid!
The problem is it was supposed to be fixed with the Potomac exchange system, but the water obviously doesn’t circulate fast enough and I don’t think it could without creating a current that would ruin the reflectiness of the pool.
A competent company
Wasn’t it just DonOLD’s pool guy given a no-bid contract at a much higher than average profitability rate?
DonOLD’s
Every day I log onto Lemmy, I see liberals coming up with a new nickname for Trump.
Part of me is annoyed because they’re sometimes so esoteric I have to decode them.
But another part of me is impressed at the variety and creativity
¯\(ツ)/¯
Yeah, that’s just weird. Why can’t they call him something respectable like “daddy” like the Republicans do? That’s totally not super weird or creepy to the point of being disturbing!
Lmao, do you think I’m a chud or something? I don’t like liberals because I’m one of those spooky Tankies y’all are so afraid of. Get with the program
Wow, imagine actually admitting that.
Not spooky, just awkward and mentally ill.
The goal of Russia’s special military operation is to ____ Ukraine.
A. Liberate.
B. Remove corruption from.
C. Take control over.
D. Kill any Nazis living in.Pick one. There is a correct answer.
Wtf are you babbling about now?
liberals
Excuse you.
Yes.
Sigh, we live in the shittiest timeline.
I’m sure a ton of people will show up to sit in 90°F heat and heavy rain. They won’t even notice the pool!
