Grey Water Dumping

I have been to few places where it is permissible...

CLOUDLAND CANYON State Park in Trenton GA is one and they have one of these GRAY WATER pour points at the beginning of each site road...



Generally speaking it is permissible in the NATL FOREST areas unless posted NOT TOO do it..

I have seen a few of these in the NATL FOREST BAck roads as well...


Roy Ken

Dumping RV waste water on the ground is illegal in Montana state-wide!
Dumping RV waste water in the vault toilets in Forest Service campgrounds is against the campground rules. Those toilets have to be pumped out, and RV waste water would fill them too soon.
There usually are no dump stations in USFS campgrounds around the state. When the tanks get full, you have to go to the nearest town to find a dump site.
We learn water conservation at a young age.
Many USFS (and state) campgrounds have no garbage service. You are expected to take it home with you. It is often not advisable to try to use the first dumpster you see in the first town you arrive in. You could get arrested! For instance, the dumpster by the Post Office in Hungry Horse, Montana. Do not use it!

Some states environmental laws and rules permit it and some prohibit it. If the state allows it then the facility owner can permit or prohibit it. Bottom line is must ask in every case.

It was permitted at a few Western desert CGs I visited last summer.

In California, you just might be saving a tree if you dump your grey water. We're still really dry here in the southern end of the state. Our tanks are big, so haven't had the issue in years. When we had our Class C, I would occasionally find a gofer hole and fill it up.

as mentioned above grey water stinks. we were do on the snake river one year some years back and a guy from Portland Oregon as most big city guys think,( we country people know this to be a fact) he thought he would empty his grey water tank, oh Lord it smelled like he opened the wrong valve. stink is not the really word for it. so unless you are ready to be the butt head in the camp ground or be willing to camp with the smell, I suggest you don't dump the grey water.

old guy wrote:
as mentioned above grey water stinks.

That's why you only do a little at a time. :)

I boondock/dry camp a lot around here, and everywhere I go I can easily fill a garbage bag or two with litter. Beer cans, water bottles, scraps of paper, plastic shopping bags...and if I picked up cigarette butts I'd never stop.

Not to justify gray dumping, but litter is way more offensive to me.

Whether it is allowed or not "please" remember that gray water STINKS. Don't care if it is you shower water, dish water or whatever it STINKS.

And full of bacteria! Some good, some not so good.

Grey water should never be dumped indiscriminately on the ground. Only dumped at places where it is specifically allowed, which rare.

In some CG's you can't dump grey but can use the outside shower. At one CG had a twenty something female do the shower right then and there, then her mother, that was not as pleasant. I will say the were from out of country and did not have our hangups. But I didn't look. GOTTA bridge too.

LEN

Dumping grey water was legal in US about 30 years ago, but "green" clicked in and I don't think any regular campground will allow it.
Here in California we are encouraged to dump household grey water into the garden.
It is easy on lot of houses with outside clean out for kitchen sink. You just open clean out, push a clog down the pipe and divert the overflow over your vegetables.
My father had it running for 30 years, but couple years ago with wet winter the moisture start attracting termites under the house.
The deal is that grey water has to flow immediately after the use.
If you catch it in the tank, in 2-3 hr bacteria start to grow and it become hazardous waste.