Overview
- Recent footage posted by photographer Joe Flood shows large pieces of sealant and liner coming loose again while crews work inside the drained Reflecting Pool.
- The Justice Department and D.C. prosecutors have said inspectors and internal records point to Greenwater Services’ flawed liner installation and a hasty push to finish before July Fourth rather than vandalism as the root cause.
- Prosecutors dropped the vandalism case against David Hearn and moved to dismiss other charges after engineers warned weeks earlier that the pool’s top liner layer had already peeled.
- Interior Secretary Doug Burgum returned repairs to the original no‑bid contractor despite inspection findings of delaminating seams, a darker polyurea liner that can raise water temperature, and clogged circulation ports.
- The continuing failures keep the monument at risk and are likely to trigger congressional oversight, preservation reviews, and possible civil claims from people previously arrested in the probe.