Trump's administration won't seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

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30. The only cuts are in expansion joint foam and were reported early.

They don't state it, but it seemed pretty clear that these "cuts" were incidental and probably happened as part of the renovation.

And perhaps weren't "cuts" at all. I understand that settling of concrete slabs, movement, and expansion joint failures and leakage has been a problem all along. Doesn't strike me that a coating could solve that.

Hell, the thing was installed on marshland and reclaimed tidal mud flats. The ground beneath it is unstable silt, which has caused the pool to continuously sink and leak since it was completed in the 1920s

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/reflecting-pool-national-park-service

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that government documents it obtained showed that, while NPS workers had discovered two cuts in sections of foam located between the pool’s expansion joints, the cuts were not directly related to the blue coating that is now peeling, or to the algae bloom. The cause of the cuts was unclear, according to the report.