Trump administration turns to hydrogen peroxide in latest bid to beat back algae
Crews vacuumed algae and added hydrogen peroxide as officials said a new ozone nanobubbler is working in the $13 million renovation.
- The Department of Interior is addressing an algae bloom at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool using an installed 'ozone nanobubbler' and hydrogen peroxide, with crews vacuuming dead algae clumps from the water this week.
- President Donald Trump's more than $13 million renovation of the 2,800-square-foot Reflecting Pool was completed just over a week ago, yet the site has faced recurring algae blooms for decades despite refilling with 6.5 million gallons of clean water.
- Public records show Ohio-based Greenwater Services installed the filtration system, which the company claims is 'the only water purification system in the world whose patented technology is backed by government and academic research.'
- Eddie Wood of Atlantic Industrial Coatings told CNN, 'My company had nothing to do with water, only water proofing and water tightening,' distancing his firm from the filtration system's performance.
- The White House did not comment on whether Trump has spoken to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum regarding cleanup efforts, directing inquiries to Interior, which maintains the ozone nanobubbler has destroyed the bloom.
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By Sunlen Serfaty, Kit Maher and Dugald McConnell, CNN. Just over a week ago, the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool, funded by President Donald Trump at a cost exceeding $14 million, was completed. Its 300,000 square feet (28,000 square meters) were filled with 6.5 million gallons of clean water. But it has already been plagued by a problem that has troubled administrations for decades: algae. Over the past week, the Trump adm…
On Tuesday, the National Park Administration tried to fight a seaweed plague in the Lincoln Memorial Pool. With an expensive renovation, the US President had actually wanted to keep it reflective and "US flag blue." Now it's green again.
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The reflecting pool in Washington DC has something of a cursed history. It was built in the 1920s as a shallow pool designed to reflect – the clue is in the name – the Lincoln and Washington memorials for visitors to the National Mall. But it was built badly. Washington DC is famously a swamp, and the pool’s foundations were badly designed. By the 2000s it was leaking an astronomical 500,000 litres of water every week through cracked, damaged fo…
Feds Deploy Hydrogen Peroxide in Fight Against DC Algae
Fixing the murky Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool now involves what looks like a mass dumping of household cleaner. Videos circulating Tuesday showed workers tipping gallon jugs of hydrogen peroxide into the long, algae-coated basin, part of a National Park Service push to clear the water after the Trump administration's high-profile,...
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