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\n\tThe long list of grievous failures related to the ill-fated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has grown longer after a Washington Post<\/em> expos\u00e9 based on an inspection report obtained by the paper.<\/p>\n \n\tThe report, issued internally on August 6 after having been commissioned by the contractor in charge of repairs, documents far more problems than were previously known, and does not mention any vandalism of the kind that the Trump administration cited as a source of the troubles during the summer-long affair.<\/p>\n \n\tAs reported by the Post<\/em>, \u201cThe 75-page \u2018failure analysis\u2019 by Atlantic Coating Inspection includes scores of photos documenting the liner\u2019s deficiencies\u2014ranging in severity and including blisters, peeling and cracks\u2014and identifies their likely causes. Some of the peeling probably occurred because workers were still applying the coating the day before the pool was refilled with water on June 4, even though the material needed 72 hours to \u2018cure,\u2019 or dry completely, according to the report.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn a statement issued Tuesday, a U.S. Interior Department spokesperson said Atlantic Industrial Coatings (AIC), the company in charge of the repair work and that commissioned the August 6 report, \u201cis contractually obligated to fix the Reflecting Pool\u201d and is \u201cwell on its way to doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAfter AIC was awarded a no-bid $14.7-million contract to purportedly fix problems that had dogged the Reflecting Pool for decades, work commenced. As the Post<\/em> recounted it, \u201cBy early June, the pool was refilled. Within days, a massive algal bloom turned the water green. Then flakes of peeled blue paint began to poke through the water\u2019s surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/reflecting-pool-repair-work-failure-report-1234802473\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2294213278.jpg?w=1024″] The long list of grievous failures related to the ill-fated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has grown longer after a Washington Post expos\u00e9 based on an inspection report obtained by the paper. The report, issued internally on August 6 after having been commissioned by the contractor in charge of repairs, documents far more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2203320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2203320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}