Sulfur smell in well water

[cooley2189]

How do you get rid of the sulfur smell in well water. The system has a particle filter on it where it enters the house, but obviously it doesn’t filter out the sulfur smell. It get awful bad when the water isn’t ran a few days while out of town. Anybody know how to fix it?

 

[jeep78]

Carbon filter, also called carbon block filter.

 

[Horsehat]

Chlorine bleach into the well head. Good filtration system. Also, make sure you don't have a p trap going dry. With this low humidity they can dry out fast and you might be getting odor back up from the septic and just think that it is the water.

 

[Allsmiles]

Move to central Florida and after about 2 weeks you will not notice it anymore as your olfactory senses will be gone. I'm surprised that the water wasn't yellow when I lived there.

 

[rbstern]

How do you get rid of the sulfur smell in well water. The system has a particle filter on it where it enters the house, but obviously it doesn’t filter out the sulfur smell. It get awful bad when the water isn’t ran a few days while out of town. Anybody know how to fix it?

You may need to drain and flush your pressure tank and hot water heater tank. If they have sediment in them, the water sitting in there picks up the sediment odor.

 

[cooley2189]

Pressure tank was just replaced. I replaced the filter also. Will try draining the hot water heater, but it stinks even on the cold water.

 

[Kahrnut]

I'm assuming this is a drilled well?

 

[rdills]

Move

 

[cooley2189]

Drilled Well

 

[cooley2189]

Move

Genius.....great idea.