Why is newly renovated Reflecting Pool in Washington DC full of algae?

The historic pool has turned green with algae just days after it was refilled with water following renovations.

Reflecting pool turns green after $14.2m Trump renovation – video

The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC has turned green with algae shortly after it had undergone a renovation. The no-bid contract to waterproof and repaint the site was awarded to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a Virginia-based company that had previously carried out work on a swimming pool at one of Donald Trump’s golf clubs. Algae thwart Trump’s $14.2m attempt to turn reflecting pool ‘American flag blue’ Before-and-after photos: Trump’s $14.2m makeover delivers … a blue po...

By Guardian Staff

Trump's blue-bottomed reflecting pool turns green with algae

U.S. President Donald Trump believed he had a solution to the reflecting pool's algae problems: painting its bottom a particular shade of blue. Less than two weeks after the repair work finished, the algae is back.

American flag blue? Algae turns Trump’s reflecting pool swamp green instead

One of President Donald Trump’s pet beauty projects for Washington was supposed to make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool look blue, like part of the US flag. Enter Mother Nature. Algae has proliferated in the water, turning it a swampy green. “Can you see it in my photos? Oh well, I’ll just use a filter to hide the algae,” said Farrah Lu, a 43-year-old tourist from China. The invasion comes just days after the completion of the pool repainting project, part of Trump’s drive to put his sta...

By Agence France-Presse

A Fourth of July for Trump: All about the controversy surrounding America’s 250th anniversary

While Independence Day celebrations are typically national and nonpartisan events, the president has decided to present them as an event associated with his political persona

By Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez

Trump team’s answer to growing algae problem in Reflecting Pool: Bleach it

‘I think it’s a mess. I’ve never seen it this green before,’ one area resident griped

By Brendan Rascius

Was hydrogen peroxide dumped into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool?

Swamp Thing: Algae mess with Trump's pool project

Swamp Thing: Algae mess with Trump's pool project

US combats pool algae with bubbles

US President Donald Trump's remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with its “American flag blue” bottom has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom that park service workers struggled to address Tuesday just days after its more than $14 million renovation. The Washington Monument is once again visible in the refilled pool, but Trump's vision of an azure expanse between the DC landmarks has been complicated by the harsh realities of chemistry and biology known to any backyard pool owner. The wo

By The Korea Herald

Will Trump Break JFK's Agreement On Cuba?

Will Trump Break JFK's Agreement On Cuba? Authored by Jacob Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation, In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia) came within an inch of all-out nuclear war with each other. To resolve the crisis, President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev entered into an agreement in which the United States agreed not to invade Cuba in return for Russia’s decision to withdraw nuclear missiles it had installed ...

By Tyler Durden