It would be hilarious if it wasn’t wasting 14.2 million dollars on a no bid contract that we all knew was going to fail since it was, just like everything Trump, surface level.
It would be hilarious if it wasn’t wasting 14.2 million dollars on a no bid contract that we all knew was going to fail since it was, just like everything Trump, surface level.
Ridiculous. The Reflecting Pool is about 10x the volume of an Olympic swimming pool. Quick math tells me they need >1000 gallons to have any sort of effect.
They put in… maybe 8 gallons?
They had several cases of peroxide, definitely more than 8 gallons, but it was only like 12% so pretty weak stuff anyway. Nowhere near what they would have needed to clear it all up. Plus it would have been super temporary and would have ended up oxygenating the water and feeding the algae.
12% hydrogen peroxide is far from weak. And it’s often used to shock pools and cleaning up organic matter.
I think we found the pool owner.
This administration really embodies the “good enough for government work” ethos.
Not really. I guess they may have lowered the bar for that phrase, though.
The phrase implies that the bar is low.
You’d think for 14 million they could at least have a couple of those little floating pool filters.
But, in reality, a massive body of water like that is just gonna have natural things happen to it. There isn’t really a way around it unless they want to poison the local environment with chemicals.
Besides the concrete cracks, the Reflecting Pool needed new pipes to the filtration and distribution building (the wrong ones were installed and ground settling cracked them, they’re leeching water into the soil). They also needed to waterproof the expansion joints which, although temporary sealed by the liner they installed, will eventually leak again when the liner rips due to further settlement.
Once again, Trump puts lipstick on a pig and kicks the problem down the road so he can look good until he’s gone.
100% certain they do not care.