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.
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Trump's Reflecting Pool Turns Green With Algae
- Trump administration uses hydrogen peroxide and tiny bubbles against algae in Reflecting Pool The Independent —
- Swamp Thing: Algae mess with Trump’s pool project The Straits Times —
- Late Night Wades Into the Reflecting Pool’s Algae Bloom The New York Times —
- Visitors react to green reflecting pool 📹 NBC News — · 45sec
- American flag blue? Algae turns Trump’s reflecting pool swamp green instead South China Morning Post —