A union monitoring the work on Washington DC’s Reflecting Pool, which was arranged by Donald Trump, has warned that workers installing the “American flag blue” waterproof layers could be putting themselves at risk to complete the work on time. Concerns that safety regulations might have been circumvented were also brought up.
In April, Trump announced plans to fix the Reflecting Pool once and for all after decades of algal blooms turning the water green. The pool was drained of water, and a $13.1 million no-bid contract was given to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a Virginia based company although the work reportedly won’t be fixing the leaky pipes thought to cause the algal blooms.
