Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Reflecting Pool Failure
“The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.“
A worker pulling up a piece of the pool lining on Thursday.Credit…Salwan Georges for The New York Times
“But the bigger problem, the company said, was that the repair plan laid out in the contract called for the layers of liner to include two chemicals that turned out to be incompatible.”
Workers sprayed blue coating Thursday as part of ongoing repairs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington.Credit…Salwan Georges for The New York Times
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