Dewinterizing - first trip without sewer
We are heading out for our first trip Easter weekend, but our site will not have sewer (we will have W/E). So, I'm trying to figure out how to deal with dewinterizing. My initial thought is that ...
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LakeN wrote:
Just dewinterized at home prior to a trip. Rather than bleach, I used Taste Pure to treat fresh water tank + lines. You dont have to flush out several times. We use a basic water filter + water was fine to drink.
I never heard of Taste Pure before, so looked it up online. Camping World sells Taste Pure Drinking Water Freshener. This stuff obviously isn't meant for use in sanitizing water systems, as their material safety data sheet (MSDS) says it is only a 0.4% solution of sodium hypochlorite. Regular household bleach that most of us use for sanitizing is a 5.25% solution of sodium hypochlorite (bleach MSDS). The standard formula for sanitizing is 2 ounces of household bleach for each 15 gallons of water, so the suggested 2 ounces of Taste Pure Drinking Water Freshener per 20 gallons is going to be way too weak to do anything in the way of sanitizing.
There is a TastePure Dewinterizer, with a 12% sodium hypochlorite strength (MSDS),but at about $18 for 16 ounces it's way more expensive than the few ounces of $3.69/gallon household bleach needed to do the same job.
