[Themaintainers] What’s Actually Wrong With The Reflecting Pool: And why President Trump’s repairs have not addressed a major underlying problem.

[Camille E. Acey]

/When the architect Henry Bacon designed the Reflecting Pool, he envisioned it as a quiet, mirror-like surface that would reflect the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the surrounding sky./

/But beneath the smooth surface, major engineering problems have lurked since it was constructed in the 1920s. The pool was built on unstable mudflats that have shifted over the decades, cracking the pool’s concrete and causing massive leaks. And the stagnant, shallow water has become a petri dish for algae./
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/31/us/trump-reflecting-pool-problems.html

You can read the text here but only the original link has the images - https://archive.ph/mCmDF

These seems like an example of something that should probably be demolished rather than sending good money after bad. Maybe not every little structure is worth saving, especially when saving looks like this!

Camille
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