Bizarre petroleum smell in water |
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Cliffhanger
Newbie Joined: 30 Dec 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7 |
Topic: Bizarre petroleum smell in water Posted: 16 Jul 2020 at 10:08pm |
This is so weird it’s hard to wrap my head around. We put 10–12 gallons of house water in the fresh water fill up and didn’t notice anything at the time. First time using water at the sink we were overwhelmed by a strong diesel odor. To mitigate we put about 4-6 ounces of dish soap in the tank and ran down the road to shake contents, then dumped the tank and drained the lines. We think someone sabotaged our tank. Can’t think of anything else. Suggestions?
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Olddawgsrule
Senior Member Joined: 20 Sep 2017 Location: New Hampshire Online Status: Offline Posts: 1014 |
Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 6:38am |
New or older? They're supposed to be made of LDPE and when breaking down can leave an aroma. Haven't heard of a diesel smell though..
I know, strange question.. Your TV use diesel? Someone borrow the TT that uses a diesel. I heard sillier things happen.. |
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Phil from Maine
Newbie Joined: 12 Jul 2020 Location: 04074 Online Status: Offline Posts: 19 |
Posted: 27 Jul 2020 at 2:03pm |
Sabotage, IMO. No other way there would be a diesel smell in your water unless your house water comes from a contaminated well.
Are you sure that the smell is diesel? Could there be biological contamination in your FWT? |
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Cliffhanger
Newbie Joined: 30 Dec 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7 |
Posted: 31 Jul 2020 at 2:22pm |
It was some kind of petroleum product. Soap and flushing of the fresh water tank cleared the problem. We'll be bringing our own drinking water in the future though... |
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6326 |
Posted: 31 Jul 2020 at 4:19pm |
Was there any sort of greenish tint to the water? If so, then the issue was not petroleum, but algae. We had a problem with that last year. I finally got it cleared up with a stronger sanitizing bleach solution than I would normally have used, followed by some baking soda to cut the bleach odor.
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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Cliffhanger
Newbie Joined: 30 Dec 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7 |
Posted: 31 Jul 2020 at 5:54pm |
Thanks, if the problem shows up again I'll try that.
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Shane
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 09 Sep 2018 Location: Northern IL. Online Status: Offline Posts: 98 |
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 at 1:26pm |
I use 1/2 cup of bleach and then fill my FWT and let it sit then give it a good flush to clean it out.
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podwerkz
Senior Member Joined: 11 Mar 2019 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 966 |
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 at 3:43pm |
Maybe the water fill hose that you used, had been used in the past to transfer diesel?
Otherwise...I got nuttin.
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