Subject: Re: Lincoln pool improvement recognized abroad
For those who want to complain about the pool and fixing it, this one's for you.

Let's time travel back to 2012.

https://www.history.com/articl...

Over time, the heavy structure began to slowly sink and leak. In the 1980s, concrete was poured into the bottom of the pool to try to fix some of the damage, but by 1986, the pool’s structural system was failing, The Washington Post reported. Eventually, the pool was losing around 500,000 gallons of water per week due to cracks, leaks and evaporation. Drastic repairs were needed to restore its structural integrity.

Which resulted in
Between November 2010 and August 2012, crews drained the reflecting pool and worked to restore the water feature, elevating it back out of the marshland and decreasing the depth by about 6 inches. Nearly all of the original structure was torn out, with just some of the old tile and asphalt bottom left behind. Over 2,100 timber pilings were pounded into the ground every 2 feet, 9 inches apart to provide support and keep the new pool from sinking.

Beyond fixing the major issue of sinking, the $34-million renovation provided an opportunity to enhance the pool in other ways. It originally lacked a circulation system, causing the pool to be drained and refilled twice a year in order to clean it. So, a circulation and filtration system was added. Elsewhere, a new tinted bottom was meant to improve the reflectivity of the water.

So changing the appearance of the bottom to help reflectivity wasn't anything new.

And did they get it right?
Although no longer at risk of sinking, the repairs weren’t perfect. Algae bloomed in the reflecting pool just weeks after it was refilled with water post-construction.

Survey says...no.

The lesson for this board?

Work the problem first.