It would be hilarious if it wasn’t wasting 14.2 million dollars on a no bid contract that we all knew was going to fail since it was, just like everything Trump, surface level.

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    19 hours ago

    Ridiculous. The Reflecting Pool is about 10x the volume of an Olympic swimming pool. Quick math tells me they need >1000 gallons to have any sort of effect.

    They put in… maybe 8 gallons?

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      18 hours ago

      They had several cases of peroxide, definitely more than 8 gallons, but it was only like 12% so pretty weak stuff anyway. Nowhere near what they would have needed to clear it all up. Plus it would have been super temporary and would have ended up oxygenating the water and feeding the algae.

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      18 hours ago

      You’d think for 14 million they could at least have a couple of those little floating pool filters.

      But, in reality, a massive body of water like that is just gonna have natural things happen to it. There isn’t really a way around it unless they want to poison the local environment with chemicals.