Rotten egg smell in water.

Kittykath wrote:
Might be just the water. We have the same problem and have never used the water tank, and the anode rod is new. Whole camper is only 3 weeks old. Management says the water has high iron content.

Be sure to get one of those in-line water filters. Find them at Walmart, cheap investment to keep your lines clean of iron buildup AND that plastic toilet bowl from getting permanently stained. :W

Might be just the water. We have the same problem and have never used the water tank, and the anode rod is new. Whole camper is only 3 weeks old. Management says the water has high iron content.

The rotten egg smell is somewhat common in Atwood tanks. I add bleach, fill and drain. Then just fill and drain a few times more. That usually takes care of it.

There are two possible sources of sulfur smell in your water. One is a high level of sulfur in the water. When that happens you have sulfur in both the hot and cold lines.
The solution is flush, flush, flush.
The more common source of sulfur smell is when it is in your hot water only. In this case natural anaerobic bacteria have gotten established in the tank. This usually only happens when the rig is left for a time, and all the O2 in the water is used up (O2 kills anaerobic).
The solution is flush, flush, flush. Although some bleach in the first flush would not be a bad idea.

I had a similar instance, bbut mine was just the hot side (no anode in the water heater) I drained the system. Added bleach to the fresh water holding tank and filled it. Used the pump to fill the water heater, and open all the faucets until you smell the bleach. Let the water heat up, then open a hot faucet and let it run until cold water comes out (turn of the water heater while doing this part) then turn the water heater back on, let it heat up and drain it again. I then ran the fresh tank (with bleach) through the faucets until it was empty. Hooked back up the water supply and havent had an issue since.

The rotten egg smell comes from the anode rod in the water heater; replace anode and flush out water heater.

Bite the bullet and bleach. I even let it run into the hot water tank too. It's being mixed/diluted again with the plain water already in there so it's not that strong. IMHO, JMHO it's really the only way to get the lines clean and the smell out quickly.

If the water was that bad it has coated your lines too depending on how long you stayed there. Cheap blue in-line water filter would have helped prevent that and a good portion of the smell too.

Good Luck.

If the smell and taste was on the cold side only thing to do is flush flush flush.

Had a similar experience during trip to Michigan last year. Learned to take fresh water along and test water before hooking up to RV if a new place.