annabelle

You most likely just notice it more from the sink you use the most. I imagine it is actually present at all sinks. Try the Clorox method and see if it works. The method only takes a few minutes out of your day. Oh, make sure you turn on both hot and cold water until you can smell the Clorox.....you want to make sure you disinfectant the hot water heater too. You may need to change out the anodes in your water heater.......they were the culprits at my neighbors one time.

hamilton71801

Thanks for all the tips. I'll give it a try this weekend if the weather holds out.

bigfoot

UH OH the enemy is watching. At least you’re not with the TCEQ (Texas Commission of Environmental Quality)

BearKiller

If you only smell it at one sink, then it may just be bacteria contamination within the lines; but, if you notice it at all faucets, then your well has most likely "gone to sulphur" and there is nothing you can do.

My well is maybe fifty-foot deep, the water crystal-clear, and I can open all the spigots wide open and leave them run for days and days without it slowing, even during a drought.

Across the road, and also across a shallow valley, all the wells are "sulphur", the water stinks awful, sometimes turns black, and if they flush the toilet twice in the same hour the well goes dry.


The last place I lived/owned, the well was less than twenty-foot deep and was the awfullest stinkingest blackest sulphur that I ever saw, but you couldn't run it dry.

I tried various remedies, all with no success.



If there is any remedy for genuine sulphur water, no one in this part of the country has found it.

annabelle

If you have been good for this long you most likely do not have a water problem. Unless your supply has gone South ( I have seen the stata of water at the level of a well go bad) you most likely have developed sulfur producing bacteria. This can and does occur at all fixtures ( my house as an example). You can have your water tested if you like, or just try the cleaning method which has been described.

Red3quarter

When my water starts to smell like sulfur it means time for the filter to be changed. I havea filter on my softening system that collects rust and others crud from the well and when its get plugged up the water starts to smell like eggs really bad. Did this before and after the well was redrilled. Well at first was 90 ft and the well now is 110 ft. The smell comes from all faucets but clears up when the filter is changed.

Redleg

If you're confident it's in the kitchen plumbing and not the well, I wonder if you couldn't add an in-line filter at the beginning of the run. Prime the filter housing with some bleach and let it circulate through the kitchen plumbing.

annabelle

If it's just the faucet at the sink, and it is the only one with galvanized piping,that could be your source. Galvanized pipes are none to collect mineral deposits and possibly can be the harbor for bacteria. Galvanized piping can become so contaminated as to restrict water flow rates.

bigbaddiesel416

i am in one of those underground rivers iam sitting @ 30 ft deep in 27 years still flowin hard (should be with the 1 1/4 hp pump)
the smell...... could come from water heater
and any connection from copper to iron / galv will corrode unless protected with rubber spacer = smell

ktpauley

I might regulate drinking water systems but I also try to help them optimize their processes and chemical doses to save money and still protect the public. We do ahve a publication called the Citizens Guide to Home treatment devices. If you want I can post it here. Keith

annabelle

You might want to try an under counter RO system at the kitchen sink ( for drinking water and ice cubes). Even filtered and softened mine is not great water. My wife loves the RO system (loves her coffee). You can get them at Sams or Lowes. About $150.00. We change it's filter about ever 6 months.

hamilton71801

I've been thinking about putting a filter on my system but haven't had the need yet. Our water is straight from the ground and its sooooooo good. This weekend I'm going to sanitize the well and I'll start saving for a whole house filter system.

bigfoot

I’m the manager of a mid sized municipal surface water treatment plant.
So I know about optimization and yes our plant is. We consistently turn out a product with >0.1 turbidity using conventional treatment.
We have won numerous awards from TCEQ for the quality or the water but it does seem that the state is not our friend anymore. It’s not how can we work together to protect the public it more how can we generate more revenue.
Thus my comment.

ktpauley

By your reply I figured you were in the profession. Are you in the Partnership for Safe Drinking Water? I don't understand why the TCEQ would not want to be your friend anymore. I thought both of our missions ( the regulater and the water suppliers) is to provide the best quality of drinking water to the customer at a minimum cost to the supplier. Or am I wrong? Keith