Union representative concerned about safety as workers rush to finish repainting DC pool before 250th celebrations
Workers renovating one of Washington DC’s most historically symbolic sites in a project ordered by Donald Trump may be risking their safety as they race to finish on time for the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations, a union monitoring the site has warned.
Trade union scrutiny has focused on the reflecting pool on the US capital’s National Mall – scene of Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I have a dream speech” – after it was drained of water and fenced off from the public to allow contractors the chance to upgrade it by 4 July.
The pool, a Washington landmark since it was dug in 1922, is currently the site of frenetic repair activity, its usual watery surface occupied instead by vehicle and work equipment. Tourists visiting the area have found their view obscured by black tarpaulin.
There are reflecting pools/fountains near me that are this unnatural blue.
Usually at the entrance to dive motels. They look like toilet water. Gross.
That’s not how you want high-end water features to look. It’s how you hide w nasty shit goes on in there after hours (like at Mar a Lago), and the blue is meant to (badly) disguise it.
I had a private pool, And I’ve maintained public water features (pools, Fountains, Ponds, Reflecting pools, Etc)You can smell this shade of blue – heavily over chlorinated and dirty. It tells you do not touch. It’s gross, and you’ll definitely catch something.
I hope they don’t finish on time and it’s a public fiasco. I mean, more so than it already is.
Before long we’ll have our own Ryugyong Hotel going up.
They are also at risk of not being paid.
Guess how little I care about anyone taking these contracts?
Nope, you guessed too much!
It can barely be quantified by science.
upgrade
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It’s not - the original design intention was for it to be a reflecting pool. Orangeboi hears “pool” and automatically expects to see the sort of bright azure blue square that you see for swimming pools in warm states like Florida; thus, he got “his pool guy” to come and resurface the reflecting pool, though they were sane enough to talk him into a very dark blue (which will probably be less reflective than the surface that was there before, but orangeboi doesn’t care) (also, iirc it was recently resurfaced under the Obama administration, which I’m certain plays a role in his desire to resurface it, because orangeboi is racist as absolute fuck, on top of categorically hating Obama’s guts)
Just America things 🫠
We need to add a new rule to the eligibility rules.
No Florida Man.
Sounds like they went and royally blue themselves
Hue hue :)
