Grey Water Dumping

RoyB wrote:
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

I haven't been there in a few years but they used to have gray water dump receivers (like at Cloudland) at FDR State park In Pine Mountain, GA. They were at many of the individual sites. Looked like a French Drain (Big hole filled with large aggregate gravel). Worked well.Not sure if they are still there.

I am a California Class A rv desert camper. We often dry camp for 7-14 days. I use a sewer cap with garden hose thread, attached to that is a 1/2 black hose that is zipped tied to the frame and dumps the grey water very close to the ground by the inside rear tire.

Grey water has no smell if you do not hold it. The ground is not wet because it absorbs faster than we use it. When dry camping the valve is open. I close it a day or two before heading off to have grey water to chase the black at the dump station.

gen5honda wrote:
I am a California Class A rv desert camper. We often dry camp for 7-14 days. I use a sewer cap with garden hose thread, attached to that is a 1/2 black hose that is zipped tied to the frame and dumps the grey water very close to the ground by the inside rear tire.

Grey water has no smell if you do not hold it. The ground is not wet because it absorbs faster than we use it. When dry camping the valve is open. I close it a day or two before heading off to have grey water to chase the black at the dump station.

Agreed, I use a 25' garden hose with adapter fitting on the grey water cap. It drains as its used whe boondocking at a private campground that allows it so long as it's drained Into the woods away from the sites. Never smelled it once.

We volunteered in a national park. It had many water faucets by the roads for folks to fill up a jug of water. There were puddles at these faucets constantly.

We were asked to dig down about 1-1/2' under each faucet area; remove the rock and dirt and refill with clean dirt and topped with rock.

To those that say grey water soaks in the ground without smell, I invite you to do what we did.

We removed layers of grease, hair, toothpaste and garbage that wasn't decomposed. Yes, it smelled terribly. It took us months to do this nasty job.

Even though there was a sign at each faucet saying "please don't wash hair, wash dishes or brush teeth at these faucets", be assured that people don't think the signs are meant for them.

Subjecting the next camper after you to park in the spot that you dumped your **** is very inconsiderate.

Cousin_Eddie93 wrote:

gen5honda wrote:
I am a California Class A rv desert camper. We often dry camp for 7-14 days. I use a sewer cap with garden hose thread, attached to that is a 1/2 black hose that is zipped tied to the frame and dumps the grey water very close to the ground by the inside rear tire.

Grey water has no smell if you do not hold it. The ground is not wet because it absorbs faster than we use it. When dry camping the valve is open. I close it a day or two before heading off to have grey water to chase the black at the dump station.

Agreed, I use a 25' garden hose with adapter fitting on the grey water cap. It drains as its used whe boondocking at a private campground that allows it so long as it's drained Into the woods away from the sites. Never smelled it once.

X2. It is important to remember these comments and a few others in this thread. Do not hold your grey water. A constant trickle under the rig is best. In my favourite summer primitive campground the dry forest mat absorbs the grey very quickly.
There are many tenters that share this beautiful place too. Portable showers and sinks abound.

I've been at campgrounds in California where not only is it permitted they actually have signs requesting that you dump it on trees in the campground. I can't speak for every state, but there is no general law in California prohibiting grey water dumping. There would be rules specific to campgrounds and I would never dump in a campground that didn't specifically permit it, but I have dumped on the ground when boon docking. I bet if people actually checked the wording of the laws they claim exists, most states probably do not have a broad law against dumping grey water, but instead it would be location specific.

California drought is over. Do not dump gray water anywhere or you will be fined.

msmith1199 wrote:
I've been at campgrounds in California where not only is it permitted they actually have signs requesting that you dump it on trees in the campground. I can't speak for every state, but there is no general law in California prohibiting grey water dumping. There would be rules specific to campgrounds and I would never dump in a campground that didn't specifically permit it, but I have dumped on the ground when boon docking. I bet if people actually checked the wording of the laws they claim exists, most states probably do not have a broad law against dumping grey water, but instead it would be location specific.

Gray water from kitchen sinks is not allowed to be dumped in California:

https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/water/pdf/recycled/graywaterflyer.pdf

Forest Campgrounds that we have worked at it was illegal to dump grey. You would receive a ticket and very large fine if ever caught That would include letting your tank drip slowly. Yes - they do watch for that type of thing.

I really get good kicks on the subject.
On one side you don't want to expose fellow campers to the bacteria, on other side you don't want the forest to die due the lack of watering.
This is the one call where in lack of campground rules >>>> you have to use your own judgement.