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Old 05-15-2012, 05:02 PM
 
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The smell is not continual, just when we first open the tap. I thought perhaps it was the drain, but I would think that would smell all the time. The smell seems to happen only after the tap has been idle for a while and you first turn it on. And it's stronger when the water is hot.

Might it be the water heater?

I should mention we're in central Denver. So not on a well as far as I can tell.
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Old 05-15-2012, 06:05 PM
 
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Do you notice the smell coming from the shower head also?
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Old 05-15-2012, 06:07 PM
 
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It may be minerals in the water reacting with the dip tube and, if the water heater is electric, the heating elements. We also have this issue in MD from one of the aquifers.
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Old 05-15-2012, 09:54 PM
 
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No, I haven't smelled it in the shower.

It's a gas hot water heater.

The smell isn't there until I turn on the tap, and then only for a few moments. And only if it's warm to hot water. But it's definitely there.

I'm starting to wonder if I could light it on fire. But I'm not sure I'm brave enough to try.
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Old 05-16-2012, 11:20 AM
 
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Hm, depends where you are. In PA some places they can light their water on fire because of fracking. Although it's probably just limited to your sink system from the sounds of it. Seems like a lot of this untested, unregulated, poisoning of the earth called fracking is ramping up in CO too. One random article from today:

NPR feature on health in CO; fracking | Erie Rising
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