Gas HW Tank, Sulfur Smell in Hot Water

[David Dachtera]

This is a new one on me ...

In a rental unit which has a gas hot water tank, the city water is well water (5 deep wells, per the city's website), and I get a sulfur smell from the hot water. The city's water quality report makes no mention of sulfur, as far as I can determine.

The cold water is ok by me - I take my pills, brush my teeth, make coffee, etc. with it, but the cat turned her nose up at it when I moved in here. I give her my bottled water, Ice Mountain Spring Water, instead.

I've heard of an electric water tank where one of the heating elements was leaking current into the water causing a sulfur smell in well water before, this is a new one on me. The hot water tank here is gas-fired.

There is no water softener, as far as I know.