Should We Offer To Help?

[JayP]

Sorry, but I just find this hilarious! Perhaps they'll ask scientists if there's a way to turn down the brightness and photoperiod of the sun.

Headline:

"Reflecting Pool woes: Trump administration turns to hydrogen peroxide in latest bid to beat back algae"​

 

[FatPleco]

I cringe whenever I see artificial, stagnant and empty bodies of water like this. Water lilies all around and a thousand algae eaters. Or keep it very shallow with water jets everywhere for children to play.

 

[MrJG]

Couple liters of purigen and it’ll be fine.

 

[Pepere]

Personally I think the whole idea of a reflecting pool here was a mistake our ancestors from the 1920s foisted on us…

6 million gallons of water 3 feet deep in the middle 18 inches at the sides, full sun, no shade…

 

[GreggZ]

Personally I think the whole idea of a reflecting pool here was a mistake our ancestors from the 1920s foisted on us…

6 million gallons of water 3 feet deep in the middle 18 inches at the sides, full sun, no shade…

If they really want help they should call @Dennis Wong!

 

[bradleysryder]

How about aquasoil along the entire length and a few million high light stem plants throughout?

 

[CincyScaper]

Has any body checked GH/KH ?

 

[JayP]

To be fair, the same thing happened the last time they renovated the pool.

 

[Pepere]

To be fair, the same thing happened the last time they renovated the pool

I think Algae growth has been a frequent problem with it.


Perhaps daphnia cultures…

 

[Pepere]

To be fair, the same thing happened the last time they renovated the pool

“Brooks Barrett, who studies marine plant life at the Smithsonian Institution, said there’s “no quick fix” to the algae bloom in the pool.

“The reflecting pool is perfect for algae. If you were trying to biofarm algae, this would be the way to go. It’s warm, it’s stagnant, it’s perfect,” he said.”

6 million gallons of shallow water exposed to full sunlight….

What sort of pumps and flow would you need to keep it from getting stagnant?


“Trying to keep the algae at bay is a huge battle. So, they clean it each year and keep trying to keep it clean,” she said. “If this problem could have been easily solved or cheaply solved, somebody would have freaking done it.””





Video of yearly algae scrub to bottom of pool…

 

[Akshay]

be honest , who else thot ...yay Daphnia !

 

[Koan]

If this problem could have been easily solved or cheaply solved, somebody would have freaking done it.

Paging @*Ci* algae being the Eternal Problem for koi ponds..

Absent the possibility of re-sloping the entire pool for a bottom drain what technology(s) would you throw at it?