First off, drain a few buckets of water out of your water heater. It may not help the smell, but since the smell is probably coming from the water heater there will be lots of crap in the tank that needs to be flushed out. The black stuff will be what's left of your water heater anode after it reacts with minerals in the water.
Next thing is to shock your well. This is a project best done when everyone will be out of the house for the day. Assuming you have a submersible pump, take the cover off the wellhead and dump a large jug of Clorox or swimming pool chlorine down the well. Then run your garden hose until you smell chlorine. Run the garden hose into the well for a minute or two, washing the inside of the pipe. Then run each of your outside faucets and hydrants until you smell chlorine. If you have a water softener, switch it to bypass. Run all the cold water taps in the house until you smell chlorine. Then turn off the water heater and start running the hot water taps until the chlorinated water comes out of them as well.
Once you have your plumbing full of chlorinated water, leave the house for a few hours. When you return, switch your water softener off bypass and run all the taps until you've flushed out all the the chlorinated water. You'll probably want to remove the aerators from the faucets so they don't plug up. You will be amazed at the crap that comes out of your faucets, and you shouldn't have to worry about the rotten egg smell for several months. Not to mention you'll kill whatever bacteria is living in your well water.
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