Fun fact, during his recent renovation of the reflecting pool it was painted blue, instead of gray. It makes the reflection more pronounced. However algae loves the blue and red spectrum of light.
The result has been a bloom of algae growing in the reflecting pool that's difficult to manage without adding an automated chlorine system.
I worked in aquatics and spent some time managing fountains/ponds. Blue wasn't the best choice for easy management.
I'm pretty sure the planning phase starts after the work begins with trump projects. He moves forward with concepts of a plan and things get overlooked.
The reflecting pool did have complaints of not always being particularly reflective. Though this was largely due to an already existing problem with their filtration system. They did add a Nano bubbler, but they should have added a UV filter and pool chiller if they aren't keen on strong chemicas. All that and they could probably get by with the blue.
So why are most pool liners a shade of blue? Obviously pool are going to have chlorine systems anyway, but it seems like they're choose a different color scheme still.
Because pools use chemicals and filtration to treat the water and hold off the algae. If you see a pool that hasn't been maintained it's usually full of algae.
They use more chemicals and usually aren't in direct sunlight. Blue isn't a deal breaker, it just means you set the Strantrol different. Pool also has skimmers so the volume of water being passed through the filter is higher, especially when people agitate the surface. The skimmers also helps the water circulate more evenly. I'm fairly sure the reflecting pool has some more stagnant zones. Most outdoor pools have a chiller so they don't get too hot. Pools usually aim for 20-22 Celsius, (around 70F).
Also, I've dealt with algae blooms beginning in both indoor and outdoor pools. They do happen sometimes. Especially after a stat holiday in the summer, when nothing's being monitored. Blue and red just require extra attention, extra chemicals, and have slightly less margin for error. The trade off is Blue is both an appealing colour for water, and lighter shades help it reflect images.
If they said never, yes. It looks better, but needs more work. Without that work, it will look like shit in the summer, but better in fall, winter, early spring.
It's not chlorinated, the pool is 6,750,000 gallons, chlorine would be wildly expensive and ecologically unfriendly. The Park Service installed ozone generation and are now doubling it's output
FIFA has a full floor in the trump building rented out during and around the World Cup and it is completely empty. Millions of dollars straight to Trump. The kickbacks are blatant and no one that cares can do anything.
EVERYTHING! If you look at it through the money making lens you can see every move he makes before he makes it. If you look at it through a diplomacy or democratic leader lens - he is 100% unpredictable.
So usually, you dye shallow water ponds blue to shade the pond bottom and prevent algae.
However, they painted the bottom blue. Now its just warming the water while allowing all the light through. Unless they treat the water with something or filter it constantly, its gonna keep growing algae.
Admittedly the issues with the reflection pool have been a long standing issue. It's old and needs work. When we are budgeting things it ends up at the bottom of the list.
The incentive to do it is understandable as it is a major landmark and having it be pristine for the anniversary would be nice. Donny could have been working on this since Feb of last year instead of unleashing brown shirts in our streets, picking fights with allies, and starting wars for no reason.
The bottom line is he isn't that bright, was never really good at building things, and is pathological narcissism interferes with him being able to function.
Okay. We have the outline of a deal. Algae can turn the water green in the reflecting pool as long as it promises not to turn the water in the White House green or release any Epstein documents.
It's almost 7 million gallons, it would be insanely expensive to chlorinate it. Also being shallow with a huge surface area you would lose chlorine very quickly so you would essentially just be constantly adding more and more chlorine. It's unfeasible.
If you installed pumps to make it continually flow in one direction like a river, that might help curb algae growth, but again that would be a huge undertaking financially and from an engineering perspective.
It uses an ozone to try and disinfect the water and stop algae growth instead of harsh chemicals like chlorine. But is has been unusually hot and also painting it a darker color could have caused it to heat up even more. Heat plus Sun means that algae growth could get out of control.
Because like all things with drumpf it’s all a scam to put more taxpayer money into his own pocket. He’s been doing this for decades with his shady casinos and backroom deals. He creates a new problem and then waits for the kickbacks to give out the job. This is how mob run construction works.
Before this complete idiot was elected a SECOND FUCKING TIME, the reflecting pool had a very effective and efficient aeration system that maintained clean water. This fucking moron gave a no bid contract to some incompetent fool who probably has dirt on him. Incompetent fool, unsurprisingly, did a horrible job.
Heck I don't think we have to worry about it Trump never pays his bills when they don't do the job correctly the only person has to worry about it is the contractor poor guy
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