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Must be why they put up the blue tarp. They don't want anyone else taking any samples. They wouldn't be able to "spin" their narrative if a lot of people have samples...... They aren't worried about one rehab because they think they can discredit it.

What killed the Ducks, Felon Trump’s Greed for power. Has the Gold leaf started peeling off the Statues? Is he really that ignorant. When you start painting or modifying artifacts it destroys the created historical Value provided by the original Artist. Antique Road Show! Watch and learn.

That’s very, very sad. The poor ducks went to water, their natural habitat… but it was a deadly cement pond with walls too high for little ducklings, that had been poisoned by Dump 😡

Sadly a disturbed, shallow, algae prone artificial water body plus wildlife equals predictable biological trouble. Perhaps Prof. Trump could explain how his imaginary vandalism creates algae?

That slit in the reflecting pool is called a badly installed seam. He's such a peice of lying shit. IT'S CALLED A BAD SEAM IDIOT 😡😡😡

It definitely had everything to do with the peeling paint! They allowed 0 time for the paint to cure!! They began filling the pool the same day they finished painting it! Any oxidizer they would have poured in just a couple of days later would act as a paint stripper! Can’t make this shit up!

Can't control the ducks in the reflection pool, but one can control the engineering to ensure clean water. The repairs and renovation did not include that. They could have put in ozone pumps through which the water flows and reflows. Ozone is an old wastewater treatment solution.

Is it from the bleach they poured in the pool? Idiots. 6.5 million dollars to beautify a national treasure and look what the did. Within minutes the paint was peeling and scum was everywhere. I guess that's what you get for hiring your pool boy

in case anyone got annoyed and didn't read due to paywall on the OP link... it's potentially a type of blue-green algae/cyanobacteria that can be toxic to the local wildlife that is most likely the culprit. I was sus about the H2O2 as well but science won that argument after review.

I feel like Florida has really gotten smashed with algae-problems ... a quick confirmation via search mentions freshwater blue-green algae, coastal saltwater "red tide" (Karenia brevis), and Sargassum seaweed (which I recall from news coverages being described as particularly offensive in odor).

Yes.,CNN reported it’s a 2nd type of algae formed from the chemicals. It is stronger, thicker & more toxic, plus the smell is far worse than decades of the other algae blooms. These stories behind paywalls aren’t repeated often on basic news. This 2nd issue , blue-green-algae/cyanobacteria is worse.

Higher up in this thread, there is a post from someone saying this exact thing would happen. I don’t know who the person is, but they certainly seem like they knew what they were talking about.

the H2O2 dumped into the water basically converts to oxygen and water really quickly and doesn't retain any toxic qualities long enough at that % of dilution to be harmful. I don't follow anything in current admin or RFKjr (aka "I like murdering kids with preventable disease" guy).

Blue-green algae, which forms in the rivers late summer where we live, as the water levels get lower, has been known to kill dogs who swim in it. Signs get posted everywhere around mid July notifying dog owners and potential swimmers to avoid. Its serious stuff

I think if more people realized what is found in various natural bodies of water in our environment, they would not be letting their pets OR other humans get into it. There are just some things that don't seem worth the risk to me, but I'm over-informed and over-cautious.

The public deserves live streaming cameras of that area from the Washington monument to check in. IF there was actual vandalism discovered that caused this…they would be airing the footage nonstop. It’s just more #Gaslighting101 pushed to the public by DJT and MAGA

All the water polluted with whatever chemicals is being pumped out of the reflecting pool, dumped into the drains & exiting straight to the Tidal Basin. How much of the Tidal Basin aquatic ecosystem will now be killed by the reflecting pool water that killed the ducks. Anybody tracking this?

A new Republic begins with a separation of beliefs and state. Beliefs, anything not proven to be factual, can be Oppressive when forced onto others. Plus this'll make lying by any Gov official highly illegal. bsky.app/profile/vlf7...

We thought #history repeated because we couldn't learn. How can we learn as long as education remains a privilege and varies? #Oppression is why it repeats. Imagine what we could build if we agreed to making all forms of oppression illegal. It'd be beautiful.

Why does the media keep referring to what the Tangerine Torquemada did the the Reflecting pool as a renovation? Renovation is the act or process of repairing and improving a building or structure to restore it to good condition.

And Now The Stupid Bastard is Killing Wildlife while wasting 16 Million and counting, The dumb ass should have actually ask experts before paint the reflecting pool dark blue sun helps kill algae, He sent his goon squad to grab anyone who puts their hand into the water to blame them for his F up!

“He slashed the entire pool lining and the ducks were collateral damage. The vandal crab and his knife are BLUE! Thats all you need to know.” - doNaLd tRuMp, probably

You really need to conduct an autopsy. You’ve painted a natural engineered pool. You then, double down added shit loads of peroxide to it. If I need a Dr degree to figure this the fuck out, our society is doomed. Do fucking better!

Did the reflecting pool kill ducks and wildlife before first felon got his hands on it? I would be surprised if it did. Everything he touches turns to shit. That’s an eight decade record! Finally, something he deserves special recognition for achieving.

We don’t need any necropsies. Those ducks died from the algae. Trump caused the algae, so he’s responsible for the dead ducks.

My guess is the toxins in the blue paint or the hidrogen peroxide put on the water to kill the algae. That’s the same stuff he recommended people inject to get rid of their Covid 19!

A pool chemist wrote a very i formative 8-part post on bsky the other day saying there had not been enough peroxide to kill the algae, but the algae bloom, caused by excessive phospates, were probably producing toxins deadly to pets/wildlife; that the bloom wd return after peroxide bcz phosphates