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Water tastes like cucumbers?

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Ranger1

05/19/2022 08:48AM

Just got back from a few days on Disappointment Lake. Was with a group of 5 and we had 5 different gravity filters with us. The water on Disappointment had a distinct and robust cucumber flavor. Multiple different water filters were turning out water that tasted like this, so it wasn't a product of the filter.

Curious if anyone has run into this before?

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Portage99

05/19/2022 08:58AM

I have not, but I have noticed the water in each lake tastes slightly different.

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tumblehome

05/19/2022 09:45AM

Not sure about that but it sounds like some tasty water!

Have you ever been at a gala event and they have those big glass jugs filled with slices of cucumber, lemons, or lime? Yummy.

Reminds me of the blue walleye on Kawnipi. Unique things about lakes.

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MikeinMpls

05/19/2022 01:20PM

There are A LOT worse things that it could taste like! Each lake has it's own taste coming from it's own mini-ecosystem. I'd be curious what contributed this on Disappointment Lake.

Mike

I did indeed rock down to Electric Avenue, but I did not take it higher. I regret that.

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Ioway

05/19/2022 02:53PM

So was the cucumber water disappointing?
Couldn't resist.

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Savage Voyageur

05/19/2022 03:04PM

The First Need water filter also has a charcoal purifier in it too. After you filter the water will taste like……….water.

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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KarlBAndersen1

05/19/2022 03:05PM

Ioway: "So was the cucumber water disappointing?
Couldn't resist."

Go ask Alice.

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Savage Voyageur

05/19/2022 03:06PM

KarlBAndersen1: "
Ioway: "So was the cucumber water disappointing?
Couldn't resist."

Go ask Alice."

I think She’ll Know.

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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thebotanyguy

05/19/2022 03:10PM

A cucumber odor and flavor in freshwater has been associated with the golden-brown algae, Synura, specifically Synura petersenii.

Factors contributing to cucumber odor in a northern USA reservoir

"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"

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TechnoScout

05/19/2022 03:38PM

thebotanyguy: "A cucumber odor and flavor in freshwater has been associated with the golden-brown algae, Synura, specifically Synura petersenii.

Factors contributing to cucumber odor in a northern USA reservoir "

I guess it is not harmful to drink, no?

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Soledad

05/19/2022 04:04PM

I was on Dissapointment in February, and it tasted fine. Didn't filter it.
Maybe new vegetation?

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ScottL

05/19/2022 04:13PM

I'm still looking for a gravity filter that makes my water taste like bourbon!

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thebotanyguy

05/19/2022 04:13PM

TechnoScout: "
thebotanyguy: "A cucumber odor and flavor in freshwater has been associated with the golden-brown algae, Synura, specifically Synura petersenii.

Factors contributing to cucumber odor in a northern USA reservoir "

I guess it is not harmful to drink, no?"

Correct, the compounds for odor and flavor are harmless.

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