An 'expert' might know to clean the pipes. An 'expert' might know to pick a color that reflects heat more than absorbs heat.

Algae in my animal waterers unless they are exposed to sunlight. I'm no expert but algae's green color is due to photosynthesizing light to survive. I actually make a point of storing my water in dark tanks near the waterers to keep the algae from growing so rapidly. Maybe my algae is different?

So, how does algae build up inside dark pipes? It has no light.

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created by the true swamp creatures - the GOP.

wouldn't be enough to get rid of the scum in DC.

"Everything he touches turns to shit" ..to "Everything he touches turns to Algae"

(It's not an improvement)

are light colored? To slow down the bottom from heating up and helping algae growth.. Duh..

Or visit the algae stained reflecting pool? Soon to be chocked by pond scum. A fitting indictment of the scum regime.

He gets contractors to pay him a large upfront kickback on the grossly inflated cost of the contract and then stalls the payment to the contractor and the contractor cannot complain too loudly because he is part of the fraudulent deal. Trump may end up not paying the contractor at all or just paying them pennies on the dollar. He tangles the contractors up in court for years never settling the full amount of his debt.

and learned his trade in the era where the mafia controlled the "Concrete Club".

20%. The wait another year and send him another 20%. If he'd go to court the Judge would state that Trump is trying to get you paid off,he did send you 40% so basically stop bitching. Trump controls the Treasury just like his own bank account.

With that it's over, Trump stole 60% of that $14M. He played that game with Casino contractors.

who works for Trump's Golf Courses, I wonder if the government will pay him 13 MILLION for his work, (ludicrous amount) and expect the contractor to give Trump cut rates on any future work on his Golf Courses.

This is a well know procedure among Corporate CEO's.and business owners/managers......getting extremely low rates on work done on their personal residences, and, in turn, rewarded with jobs done at their businesses at a much higher cost to the business for work.........

Rain On The Scarecrow.

Algae in the pool, scum in the Oval.

Perhaps one of the DU hydrologists can confirm this thesis.

Doesn't algae turn green because of photosynthesis? Doesn't photosynthesis need light?

Where is the light coming from inside the pipes? Somethings fishy about this story of algae building up inside pipes.

Me thinks the water was pumped from some open sources of water that had algae in it already. Just another scam by pedo Trump and his oligarchs.

My animal waterers never build up algae when they are kept in the dark. Humph, maybe pedo Trump has special algae?

"It had to be done"

( facepalm )

Link to tweet

enviromentally like an actual swinning pool. They aren't going to pump it full of enough chlorine and chemicals to keep it "pristine". I don't think vistors or the media would enjoy constantly seeing sick and dead wildfife in and around the pool (and it proably would violate some EPA regulations). It is very shallow and heats up very quickly encouraging the algae. It was intended to looks it's best under such a natural enviroment they way it was originally designed. To try and keep it looking like a resort style blue pool is a fools errand.

Let’s hope this isn’t their next step.

Bloody thieving idiots!

Katie, there is another word for what you are but I won't say it.

Instead of resorting to governmental architects and scientists who know "dark colors absorb heat and foster algae growth."

There is legislation regarding water feature bottom colors. That's why you only see standard pool looks.
How long before they figured they built a maternity ward for bugs? Constant skimming is a must.
Chemical levels. In the California sun I was dumping bags of shock a week to keep the algae down. Ours were wall clingers, not floaters. Constant running of the Polaris and the filter.

Pools and boats are much nicer when the other guy owns them.
We just got stuck as a country fixing what wasn't broken.
He killed it! Another time when ya shoulda left it alone!

Now it’s taller than the Empire State Building!

Edited to add:

Actually, I was being half facetious, but I do sort of like the idea of turning the Reflecting Pool into a wetland ecosystem.. Maybe even gators.

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“Smarter” than ALL the “Experts”.
Oh… and… who gets the Lien?
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Call Divert, Deflect, Obfuscation and Delay, Attorneys at Law” (See our Add in the PennySaver)

...BLEACH.
They didn't know to run bleach through the lines, then flush them out before filling the pool?