Tempe outskirts well-water: rotten-egg smell and orange toilets

The story

Well-water house on 1.5 acres outside city limits. The owner had been replacing toilet tank components annually because the iron staining was corroding flappers and fill valves. The rotten-egg smell hit the moment the shower turned on.

Test panel showed 1.8 ppm iron, 0.4 ppm hydrogen sulfide, and a coliform detection that explained why the owner had stopped drinking the well-water entirely.

We installed a Sanctuary well-water train: air-injection oxidizer, backwashing iron-sulfur media filter, softener, RO at the kitchen, and a 16 GPM UV reactor on the main line.

The smell was gone the day of commissioning. The orange staining in toilet tanks took three weeks to clear because it was already deposited. The coliform count has been non-detect on every quarterly test since.