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Why is the paint peeling off the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? An investigation
www.scientificamerican.com

... Poor preparation and a failure to properly apply the coating may be just a few of the reasons why the Reflecting Pool's new paint job appears to be peeling off

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's makeover was supposed to inspire patriotism, but chunks of material peeling off the pool's surface have instead garnered more puzzlement and speculation.

President Donald Trump ordered the pool's renovation in April, and that order included painting its floor and walls blue. Yet within weeks of the work's completion, photographs and videos of floating chunks of a cerulean material that appears to have detached from the pool's walls have gone viral. This material is polyurea coating"a fast-curing and durable surface membrane that can seal in water and is often used to coat swimming pools.

We spoke to engineering and pool experts to find out what could be going wrong at the beleaguered monument.

For one, the blue material likely has no direct relation to the large algal blooms that are also plaguing the monument, according to Tim Auerhahn, chairman of the Aquatic Council. Nor is it merely a reaction to the hydrogen peroxide that the National Park Service (NPS) dumped into the water in an apparent effort to kill the algae"although that likely didn't help, either.

At this point, pinning the blame for the floating coating on any one factor would be premature, says David McFayden, CEO of the paint and coating inspection company KTA-Tator.

Auerhahn agrees: "The failure of the adhesion to the substrate of that product probably could have been caused by many factors," he says. Still, based on the videos of workers dumping hydrogen peroxide from the edges of the pool, he says that "it could have contributed to the issue, but it's probably not the only cause." The Department of the Interior, which oversees the NPS, did not respond to a request for comment.

Hydrogen peroxide can be used as a paint stripper, but the water in the pool would likely dilute it to the point that it couldn't cause the current level of damage, he adds. ...


"Although my personal experience won't have any effect on your view, from my perspective you are elitist, cruel and unrealistic - not a leader."

Homeless, jobless, penniless. Your personal experience? That was mine at twenty.

Now, harsh reality. People want to live life easy.

Life isn't.

So, bitch and complain.

You must live according to your own means. You have to live where you can afford and it might mean living where you don't want to. Living with less and living with nothing.

Why do all those poor folk from South of the border come to the US? How far are they willing to go and with nothing (even with little or no English).?

Guess they had it easy and gave it all up just to come to the rotten North.

How often do we hear, they came here for a better life, are at least trying, raising a family, they're not the bad people.

Well, there seems to be a lot of belly aching from citizens who can't see that the Southern destitute are doing better than they are.

There is work to do and cheap places to live. Nobody is saying it's great, but it's all there. Why are Americans looking down on where they don't want to live or work.

Over 99% of US citizens live above the international poverty line.

All you have to do is make the poverty line anything you want it to be to be considered poor in the US.

From homeless, destitute, penniless, no assets but the shirt on my back to made a difference because nobody else was going to do it for me. Damn, I was the less than 1% below the International poverty line. Get to that point and you begin to count what suffering is.

Guess anecdotal doesn't count.

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