WASHINGTON -- D.C. residents walking through DuPont Circle on Monday morning were greeted with an unusual sight: The water of the Dupont Circle Fountain, a fixture of the neighborhood, was red.
One Twitter user described it as “blood red.”
Before you get goosebumps, however, the National Park Service says it was powdered dye -- not one of the plagues, that is.
An investigation was immediately launched with DC Water finding that the water inside the pipes leading to the fountains was clear.
NPS concluded that someone had added powdered dye directly to the fountain.
The fountain was promptly drained, filtered and refilled.
Why or how someone dyed the fountain is still unclear, but it was one of the more interesting fountain incidents in D.C. since a security robot in Georgetown drowned itself nearly a year ago.
