The Fourth of July is looming, and it looks like the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is not going to be fixed by then. It is about to be drained, again.
Maxine Joselow and David A. Fahrenthold report for the New York Times:
President Trump says the peeling blue coating and algae blooms that mar his $16.4 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are the fault of vandals working with “knives” in the “dark of night.”
But government documents obtained by The New York Times show that while National Park Service workers found two cuts in sections of foam between the pool’s expansion joints, those were not directly related to the “American flag blue” coating that is now peeling, or to the algae that has turned the pool a bright shade of green.
