2026-09-03T22:01:00.655Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
这场持续数月的夏季风波似乎仍未平息，特朗普政府已再度聘请新公司协助清理和维护林肯纪念堂倒影池，为这场本应作为美国250周年庆典标志性项目的翻新工程增添了更多成本与质疑。
根据政府合同细节及该公司老板透露的信息，负责监督该翻新项目的内政部将向总部位于马萨诸塞州、主营可再生能源技术的美国农业能源公司（American Ag Energy）支付270万美元，用于该水池的污水和净水系统维修维护。
这份于上周获批的为期一年的合同可额外延长五年，总金额最高可达880万美元。
内政部未就新合同相关问题，以及该合同将如何融入倒影池已开展的其他工程，回应CNN的置评请求。
美国农业能源公司首席执行官理查德·罗森（Richard Rosen）告诉CNN，他是从公司的一位董事那里得知藻类问题的，之后又阅读了相关新闻报道。
“我意识到自己其实知道该如何解决这个问题，”罗森说道。他在谈及美国国家公园管理局（NPS）时补充道：“他们希望我用正确的方式解决问题，好吧，他们一直在尽力做正确的事，做得非常出色，我会全力协助他们。”
但此次合同授予又添波折，进一步加剧了这场翻新工程的争议。
去年，罗森因2016年大选期间重复投票被判选民欺诈罪——分别在马萨诸塞州和新罕布什尔州投了票。罗森因此面临7天监禁，同时被剥夺在新罕布什尔州的投票权。但今年早些时候，州最高法院以原审法院法官在审判期间证据裁决不当为由，推翻了这一定罪。罗森表示，他目前正在与新罕布什尔州总检察长办公室就该指控进行调解，案件被发回格拉夫顿县高级法院重审后，检方可以重新提起诉讼。
CNN已就更多相关信息联系新罕布什尔州总检察长办公室。
这些细节只是这座自20世纪20年代初以来便迎接游客的华盛顿标志性建筑翻新工程所伴随的诸多争议的一部分。
该项目的成本一直是人们关注的焦点，且在今年内持续攀升。
总统最初估计翻新费用约为200万至300万美元，后来又将预估金额修正为“不到2000万美元”。
截至今年夏天，加上最新这份合同，总费用已超过1400万美元。
特朗普曾承诺修复这座地标，作为其将美国首都打造为“安全且美丽之地”的行政命令的一部分。然而，这场翻新工程从一开始就麻烦不断。
今年5月，总统乘坐车队驶过抽干水的水池视察现场后，原本呈灰色的池底被铺上了一层“美国国旗蓝”的衬里。之后水池重新注水，藻类却将池水染成了绿色。
政府随后聘请了总部位于俄亥俄州的绿水服务公司（Greenwater Services）清理藻类。该公司的联合所有者J·J·卡法罗（J.J. Cafaro）是特朗普的长期支持者和捐赠者。卡法罗于2001年承认共谋贿赂俄亥俄州民主党众议员小詹姆斯·特拉夫坎特（James Traficant Jr.）。该公司高管表示，卡法罗并未参与公司日常运营。
根据一份价值170万美元的合同，绿水服务公司使用臭氧纳米泡技术净化倒影池池水，但问题依旧存在。更糟糕的是，池底的蓝色衬里在注水后不久就开始剥落，总统称这一挫折是人为破坏造成的。
今年夏天，风波进一步升级：多人因损坏水池被捕并被控罪名，对大多数人而言，若罪名成立，将面临1000美元罚款和最高180天监禁。其中最知名的涉案人员是奥运皮划艇选手戴维·赫恩（David Hearn），他在7月因一项重罪破坏财产指控被起诉，最高可面临10年监禁。美国司法部后来撤销了对赫恩的刑事案件，华盛顿特区美国检察官珍妮琳·皮罗（Jeanine Pirro）的办公室在一份法庭文件中承认，内政部的水池翻新工程“仓促且一团糟”。这一结论引发特朗普批评皮罗。
“我不知道她在想什么？在我看来，这纯粹是一起破坏公物案件，”特朗普在Truth社交平台上写道。几天后，对其他被告的指控也被撤销。
尽管特朗普仍将责任归咎于破坏者，清理藻类的任务如今落到了罗森的公司身上。
罗森告诉CNN，他和团队的几名成员目前正在对水池进行勘查。
“他们希望我用正确的方式解决问题，好吧，他们一直在尽力做正确的事，做得非常出色，我会全力协助他们。”
Reflecting Pool saga continues with another contractor hired to clean the algae
2026-09-03T22:01:00.655Z / CNN
In a months-long summer saga that does not appear to want to end, the Trump administration has hired yet another new company to help clean and maintain the Lincoln Reflecting Pool — adding more cost and more questions to the renovation project that was meant to be a showcase of the country’s 250th birthday.
The Department of Interior, which is overseeing the renovation project, will pay $2.7 million to American Ag Energy, a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in renewable energy technology, for repairs and maintenance of sewage and water purification systems at the pool, according to details of the government contract and the company’s owner.
The one-year contract, awarded last week, could be extended for five additional years and grow up to $8.8 million.
The Department of Interior did not follow up with CNN on questions about the new contract or how it would fit into the other work that has been done on the Reflecting Pool.
Richard Rosen, the CEO of American Ag Energy, told CNN that he learned about the algae problem from one of the directors of his company and later read a news report about it.
“I realized that I actually knew how to solve this problem,” Rosen said. He added, referring to NPS: “They want me to solve it the right way, okay, and they’re doing a very good job, trying to do the right thing and I will be very helpful to them.”
But the contract award comes with another twist, further adding to the drama around the renovation project.
Last year, Rosen was convicted of voter fraud, for casting ballots twice in the 2016 election — once in Massachusetts and the other time in New Hampshire. The conviction, for which Rosen faced a seven-day jail sentence along with losing his right to vote in New Hampshire, was overturned by the state supreme court earlier this year over what it ruled were incorrect evidentiary rulings by a superior court judge during his trial. Rosen said he’s in mediation with the New Hampshire attorney general’s office over the charges, which can be refiled after the case was remanded back to the Grafton County Superior Court.
CNN has reached out to the New Hampshire attorney general’s office for additional information.
Those details are just one part of the drama that has surrounded the renovation of an iconic DC landmark that has greeted tourists since the early 1920s.
A major concern has been the project’s cost, which has escalated over the course of the year.
The president initially estimated renovations to cost around $2 to $3 million but later revised the projection to “less than $20 million.”
As of this summer, with the newest contract factored in, the cost has surpassed $14 million.
Trump vowed to restore the landmark as part of his executive order to make the nation’s capital “safe and beautiful.” However, the renovation project has been plagued with issues from the start.
After the president rode in his motorcade across the drained pool in May to survey the site, the bottom — which had long been gray — was outfitted with a liner the color of “American flag blue. When it was later refilled, algae turned the pool green.
The administration deployed Greenwater Services, an Ohio-based company whose co-owner, J.J. Cafaro, is a longtime supporter and donor to Trump, to clean up the algae. Cafaro pleaded guilty in 2001 to conspiracy to bribe Rep. James Traficant Jr., an Ohio Democrat. The company’s executives said he is not involved in its day-to-day operations.
Under a $1.7 million contract, Greenwater used ozone nanobubbler technology to clean the reflecting pool water. But the problem remained. To make matters worse, the blue material at the bottom of the pool began peeling shortly after, a setback the president claimed was caused by vandals.
The saga heated up this summer when multiple people were arrested and charged with damaging the pool, an offense that, for most of them, would have meant a $1,000 fine and a maximum of 180 days in prison if found guilty.Olympian canoeist David Hearn, the most prominent of the group, faced as many as 10 years in prison after he was indicted in July for a felony charge of destruction of property. The Justice Department later dropped the criminal case against Hearn, with DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office acknowledging in a court filing that the Department of Interior’s renovation of the pool was “hasty and botched,” a conclusion that prompted Trump to criticize Pirro.
“I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. A few days later, the charges against the other defendants were also dropped.
With Trump continuing to lay blame on vandals, the task of removing the algae now falls to Rosen’s company.
Rosen told CNN that he and a few members of his team are now in the process of surveying the pool.
“They want me to solve it the right way, okay, and they’re doing a very good job, trying to do the right thing and I will be very helpful to them.”
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