Maybe those arrested should have just been millionaires and they wouldn't have had that issue.

Holy shit I thought this was a joke

There will probably be even more digits on the invoice, I suspect. So that part will be different.

This time we'll spend taxpayer dollars on 24/7 armed guards. Guarantees everyone has something to reflect on when they're, ya know, reflecting.

Charge even more money, of course.

Imperial media playing its role.

I understood this office reference and appreciated it greatly!!!

Snip snap snip!

This whole project is hooking the reflecting pool up to be used for cooling the ballroom data center.

It's going to end up in the same river it was originally removed from. They haven't used city water to fill it for a while now.

Are the writers even fucking trying anymore? Lazy writing.

Don't worry the algae will return because they've learnt nothing.

1,000 years dungeon!

Get hauled away for "domestic tewowism" because it hurt admin feelings. Lol

To be fair to the regime (there's something I never thought I'd type) the reflecting pool had been kept clean in the past by paying people (National Park Service workers) to wade out into it and clean it on the regular. Then the DOGE crew laid off a ton of Park Service personnel. Then our dear leader began howling about the green water.

This timeline may imply some details that I've got wrong, but it's hard to be sympathetic to the regime, given the general picture of its priorities it paints, which I believe is generally correct.

In a chlorinated pool the bottom is often white, and yet it looks blue when filled. The Reflecting Pool isn't chlorinated, it has a constant flow coming from and draining to the Tidewater basin (I think) but flag-blue paint is stupid because it gets warm for the algae.

They have drained it at least twice, but he is still potus.

It's probably not recirculated water, just continual replenishment.

That, and the whole exercise is to funnel money to some cronies.

This isn't your back yard pool, this is a huge body of water that attracts lots of wildlife and having heavy chlorine isn't exact great for said wildlife. Dead animals in and around this massive reflecting pool isn't exactly what you'd want.

I might be mistaken, but I don't think the reflecting pool is chlorinated. It pulls in and dumps out water to the local natural waterways. They're supposed to be using something else (UVC?) to control tiny organisms like algae.

As others have pointed out it is not. The other part that makes this even worse is the paint used heats the water even more than before which expedites the algea growth. The water level is low which doesnt help either, but thats always been a known problem. It's just funny that if you were going to fix the pool you would think the money invested would have also been used to fix the original problems, but nope not even an attempt and here we are, tens of millions spent on absolutely nothing.

I think the water isn’t circulated because the water movement requires to keep the chlorine distributed disturbs it enough that there’s no “reflecting” effect.

As a solemn body of water, the idea is beautiful. As a practical application, it’s a fucking stupid idea.

2009 The pool's water supply system was updated to eliminate stagnant water by circulating water from the Tidal Basin; the pool was formerly filled using potable water from the city.

Probably alao why trump wants to re-fence the wh. Another 14m contract for his buddy no doubt.

It could turn as red as the Nile and the implication would be lost on them.

Followed by frogs, gnats, flies, livestock(screw worm's here), boils, hail, locust, 3 days of darkness, and death of the first born.

God's own hand and voice could decree their deeds to be upon their own shoulders and they would deny it still.

They've already used Diaper Brown for this fountain: https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/restored-cascading-fountain-in-meridian-hill-park-is-seen-with-brown-water-in-washington-dc/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX1JDMlA5TUEzRU1BQQ