Where do you dump your gray water?

My black tank is totally separate from my gray tank. So I either have to dump my gray tank into a septic tank or if I'm dry camping I have to get a Blue Boy too make the transfer to a septic tank.

Wow, once again the thread has gone off track. To answer the original questions:

1) Do you have the same imbalance?
Yes, we have 100 gal fresh, 60 gal. black and 60 gal. grey.

2) What do you do?
We avoid all of this by staying in campgrounds with full hookups, including cable TV and Wi-Fi. If I wanted to be one with nature I'd tent camp. I purchased a MOHO to enjoy ALL the comforts of home, which includes the use all the water that I need for showers, washing dishes and laundry and electric to run my blender, TV's, A/C's, furnace, etc.

To each their own.

Lou
05 Travel Supreme Envoy

Seems like everyone is talking about and comparing different things
Some are talking about black water
Some about grey
Some don't appear to realize most kitchen sinks empty into the grey tank
The real answer is IT DEPENDS
Do you have a convient hay field ?
Near drought condition in the area?
How far in the boonies you boondock....
Let common sense prevail. If you think grey water is icky use a sanitary dump
If no one objects and the local flora can use the moisture ....
Good Luck, Mike

If nothing else, dumping waste water is littering. It should not be encouraged. It gives RV'ers a bad name. Then communities react by banning parking.

It may not be a STATE LAW, but it IS a parks regulation:
http://stateparks.mt.gov/protect-and-respect/parkRegulations.html

I haven't been able to find the brochure online that describes grey (or gray) water handling. If/when I do, I will post it.

You WILL get a ticket for dumping your waste water on the ground in Montana, if the authorities catch you at it!
Yes, there IS a big difference between a tent camper throwing a wash basin of soapy water into the brush, and draining a 40 gallon waste tank onto the ground!
The bulletin board at USDA/USFS campgrounds flatly states that RV waste must NOT be dumped into the vault toilets. Again, there is a big difference between relieving yourself once or twice a day and dumping 20 to 40 gallons of waste into the toilet! The pump-out is on a schedule, and they don't want the vault filled up too soon! Remember, these are SEALED VAULT toilets, not self-draining pit toilets!

Conserving water is your main objective. Never let the faucet run when washing hands, brushing teeth, rinsing dishes, showers, etc. We can wash three days of dishes in a 1/2 gallon of water. Then the dish water is dumped in the black tank. We don't wash dishes after every meal. We wipe them off good with damp paper towels or used napkins and store them under the sink in a dishpan. We can boondock approx. 12 days without having to dump gray. By that time, we're ready to move on.

We don't dump on the ground. We've had to set up camp on spots that have been dumped on and you can definitely tell - soft ground if recently; grease and food scraps.

We volunteer in public parks and have had to scrape the soil around campsites because of grease and food scraps. We've also had to dig down about a foot at the campground water spigots to remove the grease/hair/toothpaste-laden soil and replace it so the water drains once again. Have you ever read the signs on these spigots about no dish washing/hair washing/teeth brushing? There is a reason for the sign. Somebody has to clean up your mess. Gray water is not just soapy water.

Also, we have seen many parks with the state ordinance written out for all to read prohibiting gray water dumping.

I see no problem with dumping my grey water tank at any campground, as long as I butt up to a wooded area or a good deal of spacing between the next campsite. Many home gardeners will use a soap suds mixture as a natural bug spray for their planted flowers and shrubs so what's the difference? Perhaps a lil bit of body oil from the shower? In my neck of the woods, Western New York State it is legal to dump grey water as long as you are 200ft. from residential areas. Black on the other hand is nasty stuff and always always goes into the dump sanitary sewer.

Executive wrote:

SDcampowneroperator wrote:
Law in all states prohibits dumping human wastewater on the ground surface.
That said, there are many ways to extend your need to dump like some mentioned here.
Please find proper disposal when needed.
The ants and other bugs that feed on it will not thank you.

PLEASE!!! SHOW me where that's a FACT....in California, where almost everything is outlawed allows grey water to be drained on the ground...at least two campgrounds we've visited encouraged it. One was on the shore of a substantial lake. In Nebraska, it's allowed...show me the facts...some municipalities prohibit it but not STATES....Dennis

I have to agree with Executive on this. I know it may come as a shocker to alot of you but On my farm I have a dump station set up by the driveway its a clean out from the house sewer and it goes into my hay field and dumps in an open pit,all legal! In the next few years I think this will become required to dump your grey water on the ground.

To get a couple extra days before going to campground dump station. Will empty grey water into 5 gal bucket then dump in toilet,saves going to dump too often.Also better to have more liquid in black tank to prevent any clogging problems.

Parked at home when DD & SIL are using RV as guest house, I dump grey water into ditch that is part of storm water runoff system. I figure it is no worse than the******that washes off the highway and down the ditch when it rains. I do help county maintain by picking up the trash that washes down (everything from beer cans to plastic lane markers). I take black and dump at local park dump station just down the highway a bit. When I am sanitizing freshwater, I dump all that and grey into same ditch.

When I am in campground with sewer, I take grey water by blue tote to proper dump station or grey water dump. I never dump grey or black water on site