City water or On-board tank?

austinjenna wrote:
I am mostly a weekend camper and just hook up to the city water supply with a filter. If we leave the site and will be gone for a while I turn it off at the supply. I have never been in a situation where the water was turned off at the park. Not saying it doesn't happen but it has not happened to me.

Back in 2005 when we rented a 38 ft. RV, we were backing into a site in Sedona AZ. Beautiful park by the river. Everything was going perfect. I was putting out the living room slide with the guidance of my co-pilot.

In this rental (Fleetwood Expedition), the bay storage bins are attached to the slide-out making the slide-out closer to the ground. My co-pilot was looking up making sure I would not hit any tress, etc. Well, the bottom of the slide-out hit the water spigot cracking the pipe. We didn't realize it at first until we saw water running under the coach.

It was a Friday night at almost 6 PM when the office was about to close. I ran to the office to tell them and they got right on it. They had to cut the water off to half the park to dig down and fix the broken pipe. At 6 PM on a Friday evening, I'm sure people were cooking, etc. My neighbor at the park (long term) came out to see the commotion and I told him how bad I felt about the accident. He said it is not the first time nor will it be that last. I was surprised at how high the water spigot was sticking out of the ground. When it was repaired, it was lowered about a foot.

The park didn't charge me as I was perfectly aligned in my spot and they new I had slide-outs. Their connection was really in a precarious location.

Then, last week, I called a park to make a reservation and they said that they only have electric and sewer that the have had a water pipe break and there was no water until the next day. We found another park.

Safe travels,
MM.