Nanobubbler System Kills Lincoln Pool Algae After $14.2 Million Renovation Turned Green
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Updated · The Guardian · Jun 16
Nanobubbler System Kills Lincoln Pool Algae After $14.2 Million Renovation Turned Green
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jun 16
Summary
Interior Department officials said nanobubbler technology has killed the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool’s latest algae bloom, with crews now vacuuming out the dead growth.
Warm weather had quickly turned the newly renovated pool green again, undercutting Donald Trump’s push to make the water “American flag blue” before the US 250th birthday.
The setback hit days after a $14.2 million overhaul was completed; the administration had earlier said residual algae would clear soon after reopening.
That project, initially pitched by Trump at about $1.8 million, drew scrutiny as a no-bid contract went to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, which had previously worked on a pool at one of his golf clubs.
The reflecting pool, a century-old Washington landmark and site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 speech, has become part of Trump’s broader effort to remake the capital during his second term.