I thought they were supposed to drain the swamp, turns out they were just making more swamps all along
The water is circulating between the reflecting pool and the Tidal Basin. It was part of the 2009 upgrade to use that instead of using tap water.
They would have to install something to clean the water when it gets piped to the pool, but then also remove said agent when they send it back.
The water is circulating between the reflecting pool and the Tidal Basin. It was part of the 2009 upgrade to use that instead of using tap water.
They don't typically circulate anything back to the tidal basin, the reflecting pool's circulation system from the 2009 upgrades is a closed loop that filters the water and sends it back to the pool.
They have an option to top off the pool from the tidal basin to combat leaks/evaporative loss, but they don't typically use that option during this time of the year (because the tidal basin is full of algae), and as far as I know they never use that method to completely refill it.
When it's filled from empty, it's treated water from DC Water.
Are we sure it's hydrogen peroxide? Even before Trump NPS regularly added algaecides.
If it is H2O2, it will react with the chloramine that's in the water and both the hydrogen peroxide and the chloramine will be neutralized. It wouldn't take much, 50-100 gallons of H2O2 would be enough to neutralize all the chloramine in the pool.
But to both neutralize the chloramine and reach enough hydrogen peroxide to effectively kill the algae, they'd probably need around 1 gallon H2O2 per 10,000 gallons of water, so around 6,675 gallons of H2O2.
You can't buy 12% H2O2 at CVS. I don't know why they didn't go straight to the 35% stuff though.
We should specify the concentration of H2O2. What you buy at the drug store is 2-3%. The stuff at the beauty shop might have 10% to bleach hair or used as a disinfectant similar in effectiveness to bleach. At 90+%, H2O2 is a hypergolic rocket fuel that'll ignitight when in contact with any organic marital.
Are we sure it’s hydrogen peroxide?
Considering the boxes say hydrogen peroxide and the bottles say hydrogen peroxide, it seems like a safe assumption that they didn't open all the bottles up, fill them with something else no one would complain if they used...
Like, what's your reasoning for them putting so much effort in to fake not using the normal method?
The boxes say 12%.
Below the 12% it says Hydrogen Peroxide.
I have a jug of 34% H2O2 in my shed for my weed plants. It's nasty stuff.
12% at least isn't gonna give you much of a chemical burn, mostly just bleach whatever it touches that isn't a solution.
Hard to tell but to me, the boxes appear to say “12% Hydrogen Peroxide”. Thats some zoomed in, internet sleuthing though.
After zooming in, I do see that they say 12% hydrogen peroxide, which is the typical cleaning grade.
It actually is filled with standard tap water from DC Water.
Just the dumbest shit imaginable from the dumbest people, enabled by people who literally do not care. America.
I‘m no specialist, how do you remove algae with peroxide? Do they want to bleach it a lighter color of green?
Do they want to bleach it a lighter color of green?
Probably.
They don't want it clean, they want it to appear clean.
Optics are the only thing they care about, and that almost always results in more work for more money for the worst result.
No one thinks long term anymore
Maybe they also want to poison any animal that drinks from the pool. Yknow, as a warning to the public.
The water gets circulated between the pool and the Tidal Basin. Fish there about to go belly up.
With enough H2O2, about 6,500 gallons in this case, they can definitely kill the algae (for a time being, the H2O2 won't last long before breaking down, and then you'll get another algae bloom). The dead algae will lose its green color and settle on the bottom.
The bigger question is how it will react with the algaecides that are also meant to be in the pool.
If the Trump team isn't involved and it's just NPS acting on its' own, it might be well thought out: shock the pool with H2O2 to kill the algae and reset, then get ahead of the next bloom with a larger algaecide does to compensate for the warmer waters created by the darker bottom.
Peroxide is an oxidant, it kills bacteria and algae without the odor of chlorine bleach.
But it does not last long, it's gone in an hour, so these clowns have no idea what they are doing.
I have zero idea about maintaining pools like these and if peroxide on its own is enough to get the job done (or if it’s just a bandaid for a couple of days), but why would they use these small jugs? Wouldn’t it be more efficient and cheaper (per unit volume) to get a huge tank of that stuff?
I'm not even sure this would work with a backyard pool. The reflecting pool used to have a circulating system that kept it maintained. Someone removed that, though...
It better be safe for the baby ducks…
Ammonium persulfate and or sodium benzoate would be more permanent and would keep killing algae for months or years in combination with UV light from the sun. But that's just from experience. H2O2 basically will become H20 as soon as the oxygen disassociates and evaporates as gas.
The label on the boxes reads 1.7%
Yep. I have some 34% H2O2 in my supply room for my weed plants. Nasty stuff. I'd rather spill any of my various acids on myself than that shit.
Þe Administration hired þe lowest bidder, who was my cousin Bob who works as a stocker at Costco. He saved a bunfle buying a flat of þose gallon jugs, and wiþ his employee discount it was even cheaper! He figured 10 or so should do.
I'm glad he didn't spend a lot of money on supplies, because Trump's going to stiff him anyway.
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they should've used brawndo. its got what plants crave
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