I have a new custom home with a very deep well (600') in a waterfront area on the Chesapeake Bay of Virgina. It is a high yielding well delivering over 30GPM so no storage tank is necessary. I do have a pressure tank. I am reasonably certain I have low levels of hydrogen sulfide in my water but it only manifests itself in two very specific situations, both of which are very irritating!
All of the water from all of my taps for the entire house smells fine and taste fine, including water from the hot water tank. I have zero issues with utilizing the water for drinking, cooking, bathing, etc. Outside of being very soft and hard to make soap or get soap out of your hair, it is fine. However, water from my hand held pressure sprayer in my main kitchen sink and ice from my automatic ice maker in my refriegerator produce the tell tale rotten egg smell.
The sprayer, when you first start spraying will knock you down with the rotten egg smell and then clear up very quickly with no further smell until it goes unused for a little while and you happen to use it again. The water from the cold water dispenser on the fridge tastes and smells fine. The icemaker is a different story. The ice when mixed with a liquid will produce a foul taste. I cannot use ice from my icemaker which is the most irritating of the two problems.
The only thing these two problems seem to have in common is the water in the sprayer hose and the automatic ice maker are both possibly in some form of oxygen depleted environment and is delivered/under pressure. The water coming from the well is passed through a pressure tank first so I am not sure that pressure is any issue versus low/no oxygen. It baffles me how only these two sources are noticeable or cause any problem.
I was hoping there might be some solutions here short of whole house solutions. Maybe some local active carbon filitering, etc. Any ideas on all this would be appreciated.
Remlik
All of the water from all of my taps for the entire house smells fine and taste fine, including water from the hot water tank. I have zero issues with utilizing the water for drinking, cooking, bathing, etc. Outside of being very soft and hard to make soap or get soap out of your hair, it is fine. However, water from my hand held pressure sprayer in my main kitchen sink and ice from my automatic ice maker in my refriegerator produce the tell tale rotten egg smell.
The sprayer, when you first start spraying will knock you down with the rotten egg smell and then clear up very quickly with no further smell until it goes unused for a little while and you happen to use it again. The water from the cold water dispenser on the fridge tastes and smells fine. The icemaker is a different story. The ice when mixed with a liquid will produce a foul taste. I cannot use ice from my icemaker which is the most irritating of the two problems.
The only thing these two problems seem to have in common is the water in the sprayer hose and the automatic ice maker are both possibly in some form of oxygen depleted environment and is delivered/under pressure. The water coming from the well is passed through a pressure tank first so I am not sure that pressure is any issue versus low/no oxygen. It baffles me how only these two sources are noticeable or cause any problem.
I was hoping there might be some solutions here short of whole house solutions. Maybe some local active carbon filitering, etc. Any ideas on all this would be appreciated.
Remlik