After D.C.’s Reflecting Pool gets repainted, visitors ask: What changed?

Workers refill the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Friday, after a weeks-long project to resurface and repaint the basin. Rahmat Gul/AP

Rahmat Gul/AP

WASHINGTON — Water is flowing back into the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, after a controversial painting job kept it closed for weeks. And to many onlookers, it doesn’t look much different.

“The pool gets completed at 4 o’clock and the water will start to flow in … and it’s going to be