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Don't stop with the reflecting pool, clean out the whole town!
I’d never been to the reflecting pool until the summer of 2010. It was probably the nastiest place that you could imagine....and it was best to stay a good fifty feet away from the water. My recommendation....if they can’t fix the algae problem...let’s just fill the place in with dirt, grass and trees.
The reflecting pools of the Taj Mahal are manually cleaned out a few times every day. My folks took photos and the workers were proud of their results. There are plenty of already government paid folks in DC with time on their hands. Go FDR and assign some to the WPA (Water Purification Activity.) Wouldn’t surprise me if the FDR monument could use some WPA as well. This would be budget neutral for the city; might even be a plus by increasing tourism revenue.