Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleThe Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned green just days after a six-week, £10m renovation project was finished. The project involved draining the pool and repainting its surface in an "American flag blue", as requested by President Donald Trump. An algae bloom quickly returned to the shallow pool, which has a history of forming rapidly. A visitor from Florida suggested that eliminating the algae is an "impossible task" that will likely persist. The Department of Interior confirmed the algae is dead and being vacuumed, thanking Trump for the pool's repair. In fullPool owners weigh in on what went wrong as Reflecting Pool turns green days after $14m Trump paint jobThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

"Happy Birthday Donald. You’ve renewed and invigorated the Swamp."

The Department of the Interior said the algae bloom turning the pool green was being “vacuumed up as we speak.”

Algal blooms have hit the site, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, after a $14.2 million repair project.

The Trump administration spent about $14.2 million on renovations to the Reflecting Pool, including painting it “American Flag Blue.”

Green algae reappeared in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool days after Trump's $13 million renovation, prompting questions about the project's effectiveness.

A $20 million renovation of Washington, DC's Reflecting Pool set out to fix leaks and turn the water blue. Mother Nature had other plans.

Algal blooms have hit the site, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, after an expensive repair project

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Administration had claimed algae at Lincoln Memorial pool would be cleared after the renovation, but it has proliferated amid warm weather

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned green just days after its $14m (£10m) renovation project was completed. The six-week long project saw the pool drained before…

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President Donald Trump’s more than $13 million Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation was completed just over a week ago, with its iconic 2,800 square feet refilled with 6.5…

Algae has reappeared in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after it was refilled following construction, where the bottom was painted "American flag blue."

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Trump had been celebrating the completed paint job just days before D.C. residents noticed that it had turned green.

Warm weather has fueled a bloom that National Park Service workers are trying to kill using everything from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubbles ahead of July 4 celebrations.

Experts had warned that Trump's plan could make the problem worse. Now, there are signs those concerns were justified.

National Park Service crews are working to control what experts say was likely an inevitable problem: a large algae bloom on the National Mall.

U.S. President Donald Trump believed he had a solution to the reflecting pool's algae problems: painting its bottom a particular shade of blue. Less than two weeks after the…

President Donald Trump's remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom