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Gary - a very good point about UV. If I attached a PVC fitting to the input port of the UV chamber the fitting and some pipe would be exposed to reflected UV.

My vote is for sulfate reducing bacteria that colonized a length of CPVC pipe. Coliform is possible, but in a 100 ft deep well? I was able to isolate the smelly issue to a length of CPVC pipe. There was no smell in PVC or copper runs from the same well. Not concrete proof of anything, but...

The temperature here ranges from approx. 60 - 90 at the extremes, 60 being a cold night in the Winter and 90 being a very hot day in Summer. Low to mid 80's are the normal daytime temp. I am at 100 ft elevation. Upslope, it gets cooler. I already asked the "Master Plumber" at HD weeks ago...

My well is about 100 feet from my house. White PVC (underground) carries water to the pressure tank, which is under the house (house is post and pier construction on top of solid rock). I had all the rough plumbing done by an old hand from Oahu. Now I have to finish myself or fly him back...