We have a spring it has been very good water but lately we were gone for a few days and you turn on the shower and it smells like natural gas after it has ran for a while it seems to get better. we have never had this problem before, we have a fraced well less than a mile from our spring what do I do? ....anyone else have this problem. we are in Noble county Ohio.

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I don't believe that nat gas is odorless we have our own nat gas well on another property and believe me it smells like Gas with no additives added. maybe it has other things in it but trust me nothing we have added  it is all natural. and smells the same as any other gas I have smelled. that being said we have had a lot of rain here too. so maybe it is some surface, there is some fracing in the area too. . not really sure will continue to research.    thanks

purified nat gas is odorless but well head gas has other hydrocarbons in it before refining   you are probably getting rain induced sulfur in your sping but you are surely not getting nat gas from thousands of feet down in the earth into your well  to many safe guards for that to happen

thanks you may be right

All water wells contain some traces of methane in them , These levels can rise and lower throughout the life of the well.  Weather and surface changes can affect the levels of methane found in your well also  

Joe,

I also think this may be related to all of the rain we have had lately.  My well gets a sulfur smell whenever we have a monsoon like the last few months have been.  It sounds like you use the spring for your household water; if you have a holding tank, try adding a little clorox.  It should kill the sulfur smell.

I don't know if there's any connection for you, but my parents' spring is undrinkable some years with a lot of rainwater, if the farmer has been spreading old (slurry) manure on fields, it can't soak in and runs to the nearest ground water. Sometimes there's actually color, mostly there's odor. I've always believed deep springs to be the purest water, (in an area where a lot of wells have had methane, etc., the whole light-it-on-fire thing for a century or more) but with the change in farming methods, we're seeing a lot of nasty and it's really unfortunate. Hope yours clears up. And do be careful with the Clorox--it's recommended for a lot of things, wells, springs, etc--but it is a poison, and is banned in Europe. 

Does the smell dissipate after water has been drawn and sat undisturbed for a while? Gas will precipitate out. 

sulfur will precipitate out it is in a gas form also

There will be locations that are fracked where there are natural fractures in the shale that have formed towards the surface of the earth.

The major faults show up on the geological maps, but there are places where part of the earth shifted down while the other part shifted on top of it. I know because I live on one of those formations.

You can see this by looking at water well drill logs, and my neighbor told me that whatever the water well drillers hit, they will stay in all the way to deep depths. He was right. My well is in Fire Clay as the well drillers called it, all the way to the bottom. Evidence that the earth can turn up or down how every you like to look at it.

Fracking is very safe, except if you are one of the unlucky ones that have a shale formation that no one considered or looked for before fracking. Tell me the drillers know everything about the shale. They know where the goods are, so who cares about the environment. You could have moved if you actually got a fair royalty. That ain't gonna happen friends.

You might want to have the water tested.

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