AnonymousBy an edhat reader
If your water from the tap in Goleta is not tasting all that great, which it never does due to the high level of salts, a new flavor might be involved…something from blue-green algae that is hard to remove.
Evidently, the high temperatures (thanks global warming!) over at the lake caused a bit of a bloom. Cyanobacteria can be harmful, but the water quality is reportedly meeting the secondary standards for taste and odor. They are treating water to try to reduce the contaminate. Read more at https://mywaterquality.ca.gov/habs/what/index.html .
Sometimes, blue-green algae can be helpful, see https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-923/blue-green-algae .
However, I wish that they had informed the community of this so a call was not necessary to solve the mystery of the dirt/metal taste.
“thanks global warming!” Ironically, cyanobacterial (blue-green algae) photosynthesize, thus doing their tiny part to help remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Surfer- I agree with you. It does taste and smell bad. Where I work near Patterson and Hollister it smells like bleach. At home near Turnpike & Cathedral Oaks it doesn’t smell but tastes horrible. Really noticeable because I have a nasty ice chewing habit. This is going to break me of it for sure.
I told Bernstein that the Edhats have placed my account on lockdown, but here I go again.
Was at the lake camping and kayaked about the time of the last heat wave, I posted how it looked green and smelled a bit odd.
Also didn’t they just have a drown there, I know the county needs the money from the campground, but maybe they need to cut back on the boats, I would make it a no motor lake, makes more sense!
It is true that big conventional agriculture run off causes algae blooms, this is noted by satellites maps https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/march16/gulf-030905.html That is why organic farmers do not use synthetic fertilizers to produce healthier food. However, climate change is real and here now and it is intensifying problems at a much expansive manner. Denying climate change doesn’t make it go away, it just makes it worse. Decades ago, scientists warned that climate change will increase and make more severe disease, droughts, fires, floods, food shortage, pests, storms, and poor air quality. We can all still help to reduce the impacts of climate change or we can do nothing and watch disaster after disaster unfold. It cost less to prevent or slow down climate change than it does to manage disasters after disaster caused by climate change.