Black Tank Question

GoPackGo wrote:
Newbie here. I pick up my new 5th wheel in about a week so it's time to get serious about a few things.

Within a few months, I will be going fulltime.

Seems like black tanks can be 'challenging' to keep clean, especially the monitors in them. Here's my question:

What about dumping the black tank as normal at the end of a stay in a campground, but then filling the black tank 1/3 or 1/2 full of clean water, and driving to the next campground with it partially full, allowing the water to splash around and hopefully loosening up anything that refused to leave at the previous campground ? Then do a dump just after hooking up at the new campground.

Does that make any sense ?

Thanks in advance,

Tim

Don't agonize or over think this too much. Understand your concern about the level monitors, they are with the possible exception of See Level monitors,prone to inaccurate readings and complete failures. If you want to try to stay ahead of the game with your new rig, read about the "GEO Method" HERE.

It's a popular tank maintenance procedure, though I do not use chlorine bleach in any tank except to sanitize the fresh water tank/lines. Bleach in a black tank dumped into a dump station that is not on a sewer system is not good for the little bacteria critters that reduce the poop, etc. to whatever they reduce it to...........