i think it actually connects to the potomac

we just spent.

They made it even worse by painting the bottom of the pool dark blue; the dark color causes the water to heat even more, and the ducks add fertilizer. Massive amounts of chlorine will kill it temporarily but it will come back. The real problem is with the plumbing system that supplies and circulates the water, which leaks and has never been repaired. More here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/31/us/trump-reflecting-pool-problems.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qVA.Hbdd.gbkvbjqGoMdC&smid=url-share

chlorine would potentially harm or even kill anything drinking from that water: birds, squirrels, the ocasional cat or dog...

What a mess.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is not chlorinated because it is designed as an architectural monument, not a swimming pool. Maintaining standard chlorine levels for its 6.75 million gallons of water would be prohibitively expensive, dangerous to local wildlife, and highly corrosive to the monument's pumps and surrounding structures

It may be AI, but it is 100% accurate.

but then it seems the algae is insurmountable unless you are going to just keep recycling the water at a very fast rate.

While standing and admiring the reflecting pool, I thought it was beautiful just as it was. I surely didn't have any thoughts that it should look like a swimming pool. Trump is an idiot.