Reflecting Pool woes: Trump administration turns to hydrogen peroxide in latest bid to beat back algae | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump’s more than $14 million Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation was completed just over a week ago, with its more than 300,000 square feet refilled with 6.5 million gallons of clean water. But already it’s been hit with a problem that has haunted administrations for decades: algae. Over the past week, the Trump administration has jumped into action, sending crews clad in hip-waders to vacuum up the clumps of algae and on Tuesday, dispatching workers to dump gallons of hydrogen peroxide in the pool. Nevertheless, the pool has grown increasingly into a murky shade of green – calling into question whether the president’s goal of cleaning and beautifying a pool he once disparaged as “disgusting” and “not representative of the country” can ever really be met. A worker who spoke to CNN on Tuesday quipped that it would take “an entire lifetime” to clean the pool. The Department of Interior says “state of the art” filtration known as the “ozone nanobubbler” has been installed and is working. “Due to deploying the advanced nanobubbler technology, the algae is dead and being vacuumed up as we speak,” a Department of Interior spokespe

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