Multiple videos on TikTok show the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's freshly applied blue paint is now peeling off in chunks and floating atop the water
I'm not a paint expert but seems bad?
@dncfreak250 That’s a great question that I’m also asking.
My guess would be that there is some environmental impact they’re trying to avoid.
It’s just not going to work though.
The more I hear about this pool the crazier it gets.
7 million gallons of water
800 gallons recirculated every minute.
1.52 million gallons recirculated daily (not meeting the 30% turn over requirement)
No skimmers
No filter
No chemicals
Literally impossible to maintain
This is not residual algae. This is not sabotage. This is not sea monkeys. This is not going away. This is the result of incompetence and creating a heat sink in a shallow non chlorinated pool.
@Zencapital2 I’m not saying that at all, because I actually don’t care.
What I’m saying is I work in the pool industry, and this body of water makes no sense.
@bluebirdpoopies I can confidently say that water can’t be turned over. They’ll have to do a full drain and fill.
Logistically this is a nightmare. It will cost millions to get that pool back into shape and will continue to cost hundreds of thousands if not millions every week going forward.
They need maintenance guys, full time brushers, a night crew to come vacuum the pool every night, and don’t even get me started on repair guys.
A pool this size that’s being taken care of appropriately as I’ve lined out before will still run into equipment issues daily.
Even if they had 6-8 commercial filters running 24/7 and no algae they’d still need to
Dump 250 gallons of liquid chlorine and 175 gallons of acid in at startup
add 1400 (700lbs) chlorine tabs every week
And they need 10-20 full time caretakers…
The England squad were told to shelter indoors on Saturday evening after a tornado warning was issued in Kansas City.
The players and staff also received an automated warning message on their phones saying 'Severe Thunderstorm Warning' [@TheAthleticFC]
The new God of War Faye spin-off is getting huge backlash for making the in-game character way uglier than Deborah Ann Woll, the voice and motion-capture actress behind Faye.
Sony did it again, you can thank the usual consultants