The newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to leave people green with envy.
Instead, green algae has returned to the site on the National Mall despite the the more than $13 million project by President Donald Trump.
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The project included the addition of nanobubbler technology that has “successfully destroyed the algae,” according to the Interior Department.
“Now, due to deploying the advanced nanobubbler technology, the algae is dead and being vacuumed up as we speak,” a spokesperson said.
“We thank President Trump for fixing the Reflecting Pool for good,” the person added.
A federal contract between the Interior Department and Green Water Solutions stated the new technology is intended to weed out the algae by cutting down on its food supply.
The photosynthetic plant has been present at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool since it opened in 1922 and has plagued the site up to 2012. That is when renovations were completed under the second Obama administration.
Katie Martin, a spokesperson for the Interior Department, told CNN the recent algae flare-ups were expected.
They are a “part of the normal startup process,” she said.
“What you are seeing is residual algae from the supply lines, which have been sitting dormant for eight weeks while construction has been taking place,” she said.
The National Park Service is in charge of maintaining the site.
During the renovations, the bottom of the pool was painted “American Flag” blue and leaks throughout the 2,028-foot-long site that holds approximately 6.75 million gallons of water were repaired.
An Interior Department spokesperson previously said the pool used to leak around 16 million gallons of water per year.
In addition to repairing leaks in the structure, the Trump administration is preparing to fix leaky pipes in the fall, as The New York Times reported.
