D.C. pool closed after swimmers turn blue

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Basking in a D.C. public pool on a warm spring day, neighbors discovered something wrong with the blue pool floor – it rubbed right off.

“My hand came away with blue paint on it,” said Megan Michiels-Markowski. “If there’s paint that rubs in your hands it’s obviously going to be mixing with the water.”

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