Top House Oversight Democrat demands answers on Reflecting Pool renovation 'failure'

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5. I saw this yesterday "House Republican: Let Reflecting Pool 'go' and 'create an ecosystem'"

Figured it wasn't worth starting an OP because I agree with this Republican. Didn't want to get attacked. But I really think turning it into an ecosystem is an economically feasible solution. Unless you want to turned it into Lake Bellagio and use about 125 pounds of chlorine a day, you will always have algae. (Lake Bellagio uses 500 pounds per day, but it's about 5 times larger than the pool) Actually the reflecting pool would need more simply because of it's location etc.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5937983-burchett-proposes-ecosystem-reflecting-pool/

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday had an outside-the-box idea to address algae growth in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

“Honestly, I think it’d be cool if they just let it go and create an ecosystem, have fish in there and everything. … I think that’d be a really … cool way to go,” he told reporters on Capitol Hill, according to MeidasTouch.

Renovations on the Reflecting Pool wrapped up earlier this month, with Atlantic Industrial Coatings receiving more than $14.6 million through a federal contract for the project................

Burchett said Tuesday there are “other methods” to address the algal bloom in the pool, such as chlorine and bleach. But he also acknowledged the reality of the outdoors.

“It’s algae and science. It’s just going to happen,” the Tennessee Republican noted.