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Sounds like an excuse not to pay the painters lol
Pretty typical of a new pool to bloom algae when filled. You have to dump a bunch of chlorine or bromine in to prevent it. A competent company that does large pool/ponds would have a plan to deal with it.
Given the sheer surface area of that pool it's gotta be a nightmare to maintain too. Sunlight cripples chlorine.
A competent company
Wasn't it just DonOLD's pool guy given a no-bid contract at a much higher than average profitability rate?
DonOLD's
Every day I log onto Lemmy, I see liberals coming up with a new nickname for Trump.
Part of me is annoyed because they're sometimes so esoteric I have to decode them.
But another part of me is impressed at the variety and creativity
¯\(ツ)/¯
Yeah, that's just weird. Why can't they call him something respectable like "daddy" like the Republicans do? That's totally not super weird or creepy to the point of being disturbing!
liberals
Excuse you.
Yes.
Sigh, we live in the shittiest timeline.
Another loss for ol skinbag, or should i say another involuntary investment loss by the taxpayers.
He's like the Titanic, dragging a whole country down, Donaldo di Crapio.
It wasn't a loss for him or the pool guys, they got paid with our tax dollars. Everyone loses but the losers setting this shit up.
Don't you mean Trump's swamp?
I'm sure a ton of people will show up to sit in 90°F heat and heavy rain. They won't even notice the pool!
Would this best be described as a *plague *of algae perhaps?
Didn't they just do a paint job? Was anything done to try to put in or update water circulation and filtration? I guess I'd expect nothing less than what we had before if all they did was to drain the water and repaint it and re-fill it...
Also, 125,000 people? Who are the idiots going to the event DonOLD threw for himself, I wonder?
Yeah, the entire underlying problem are the pipes that lead to the pool as many have tried to tell him. The pipes leading to and from the treatment machine need to be fully replaced. When the pool was renovated in 2012, the pipes installed were for the wrong application. The land the pool sits on is formerly wetlands. So special attention is required for putting in pipes in that area. This wasn't done and so the soil is literally crushing the pipes allowing water treatment to leak into the surrounding soil.
This is why they've had to have people physically go out there and manually treat the pool. The problem is that the treatment is never making to the pool in a large enough volume to make a difference. But the manual treatment requires people in large "unsightly" protective gear to wade through the pool and treat the water. Then they have to rope off the section that was treated to ensure no one tried to enter the pool until the treatment has diluted enough.
Trump keeps doing the thing Trump is known for, cutting corners that ultimately mean more money is spent long term. The problem is the pipes. They need to be replaced. But then the pool has to be closed for large construction and the short term cost goes up. So Trump keeps just putting a band-aid on it over and over and over again like the idiot he is.
He's been told what the issue is and what the fix is. He just wants a short-term "fix" so he looks good. He's not actually interested in fixing the pool. The pipes have to be ripped out and new ones installed. That is the only true fix.
This sounds personal in some way. Know someone who bid on it?
This sounds like you're a conservative on Lemmy. Fuckin weird.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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