It was the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I have a dream" civil-rights speech and has even landed in pop culture with a movie scene in "Forrest Gump."
But the 2,000-foot stretch of placid water, set between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, is in dire need of repair. The pool is stagnant, full of filth and algae, and usually is surrounded by a ring of muddy shoe prints.
Reed Coble, estimator for Corman Construction Inc., sums up the problem...
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