{"id":15641,"date":"2026-06-17T04:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=15641"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:03:18","slug":"trump-administration-uses-hydrogen-peroxide-and-tiny-bubbles-against-algae-in-reflecting-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=15641","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration uses hydrogen peroxide and tiny bubbles against algae in Reflecting Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

By KATIE VOGEL and JACQUELYN MARTIN<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with its \u201cAmerican flag blue\u201d bottom has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom that park service workers struggled to address Tuesday just days after its more than $14 million renovation.<\/p>

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The Washington Monument is once again visible in the refilled pool, but Trump\u2019s vision of an azure expanse between the D.C. landmarks has been complicated by the harsh realities of chemistry and biology known to any backyard pool owner. The work has been confounded by the unique challenges posed by the scale of the structure, bigger than 10 Olympic-sized pools \u2014 which Trump has called a lake \u2014 and the source of its water: the often-fetid Tidal Basin.<\/p>\n

Algae has plagued the site since it opened more than 100 years ago, but Trump set his sights on addressing it as part of his aggressive push to beautify Washington as the country approaches its 250th anniversary. Contracts worth at least $14.8 million have been awarded for the project, announced in April by Trump, who said he was inspired by complaints from a friend visiting from Germany who called the pool dark and disgusting.<\/p>\n

Teams of National Park Service employees and contractors deployed chemicals and ozone nanobubbles Tuesday in a bid to keep the algae in check, not dissimilar from efforts to clean the pool before Trump\u2019s renovation kicked off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you expect?\u201d asked Cochise Wanzer II, president of the Pool Service Company in Arlington, Virginia. \u201cYou\u2019re basically taking natural, untreated river water, pumping it in and expecting it to do something different from what it would do out in the open.\u201d<\/p>\n