dumping fresh water question

nitro, it is referred to as pole vaulting over mouse droppings. :W

wbwood wrote:

nitrohorse wrote:

wbwood wrote:
I call it rude. Whether it's clean water or not. I guess no different if I take a bottle of water and let it hang out the window and let it go. No, more than likely it will not hurt the vehicles, but it's just plain rude. Pump it into your black or gray tanks and dump it all at the dump station on your way out. Or as others mentioned, take it home and drain it onto your driveway or water your grass with it.

How to you feel about people who's windshield washer are misaligned and spray over the roof of their car and onto the vehicle behind them?

I can see them doing that. And it's only a one time mist. Not a full on shower. Drivers can not tell what is leaking underneath your camper. How would you feel if someone dumped their gray water like that in front of you? After all, it's just water from the sink and shower. Won't hurt anything, right?

I obviously cannot speak for all the RVs out there, but the drain water flow from my low point drain is such that it would be difficult to even create a mist on the roadway at highway speeds. I've opened my drain numerous time when returning from boondocking. Once at highway speed, you cannot detect any amount of water coming off the roadway or RV. The only way to see any trace of water is to walk along the curb side the RV while stopped and look directly at the LPD. In fact, it takes me nearly the entire 40 minute ride home to drain the 35+ gallons of water in the fresh tank. So I think the concern on here regarding comments that the water could be from the black or grey tanks, while probably justified if the fresh water drain outlet is 3" or greater, is not much of a concern at .25" ID water line flow. Again, I think some on here are making a little too much ado about nothing.

jeffcarp wrote:
Why do cities all over the Country institute restrictions on things like watering lawns if all you are doing is recycling water through your grass? Or why does the City of Phoenix have an official policy on how many times you should fill and dump your swimming pool, and even THAT policy asks that the water is dumped directly into the storm sewer. I think it was clear that people are talking about a more immediate water supply issue, not some theoretical long term water cycle issue.

We aren't talking about right or wrong here. We aren't talking about science. We are talking about courtesy and awareness of others. I could let my dog******in your yard and tell you you should appreciate the free fertilizer. I won't do that because it is rude. Dump on your own property as far as I am concerned (Your dog and your RV!). Problem solved. I have a coworker that cuts through a private business parking lot with a "no public access please" sign to short circuit his drive home instead of going around on the city streets that takes 30 seconds longer. I travel the same direction home and I don't do that nor do most in my office. Some people think of themselves first and justify their actions. Others think of others first to explain their actions. Neither think they are wrong. All of us fall somewhere in that spectrum and for that reason this thread has become a dead end.

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nitrohorse wrote:

BigBoy11 wrote:
So why are so many of you wasting water?!!!! Fresh water can remain in the tank for weeks as long as your tank and lines are disinfected at the beginning of the season. Dumping fresh water anywhere, anytime is a waste of natiral resources and gives RV'ers more of a bad reputation than any of the other things mentioned here. Geez! Where is the common sense?!!

Water is being recyled by being put back into the environment. If you're really concerned about wasting resources, then take a long hard look at the fuel/gas you consume pulling/driving your RV.

Dumping good water on the cement to evaporate is recycling it? :R

nitrohorse wrote:

wbwood wrote:
I call it rude. Whether it's clean water or not. I guess no different if I take a bottle of water and let it hang out the window and let it go. No, more than likely it will not hurt the vehicles, but it's just plain rude. Pump it into your black or gray tanks and dump it all at the dump station on your way out. Or as others mentioned, take it home and drain it onto your driveway or water your grass with it.

How to you feel about people who's windshield washer are misaligned and spray over the roof of their car and onto the vehicle behind them?

I can see them doing that. And it's only a one time mist. Not a full on shower. Drivers can not tell what is leaking underneath your camper. How would you feel if someone dumped their gray water like that in front of you? After all, it's just water from the sink and shower. Won't hurt anything, right?

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

nitrohorse wrote:

KrisNKallen wrote:
This has been an incredibly amusing thread - which I'm pretty sure the OP did not intend. I particularly enjoyed the "wasting water" post -- how is putting the water back into the environment "wasting" it?!?!?!? Does this person have any clue how the natural water cycle works? Or where water comes from? Thank you all for a fun morning's read. ;)

The scary side to a thread like this is that these "people" are out there camping with the rational folks.

LOL, I wonder what one poster would say about me "wasting" 6 million gallons of water this year on my farm to keep my trees alive and to feed the masses? 6 million gallons of water on just 10 acres. Just think what the 300 acre farms use? :E

On a side note, I do try to conserve my waste water by cutting down on my diuretic intake during vacation. :B

I don't know that clean water applied to dirt does much for these folks. It's clean water on a roadway that brings out the hysteria.

nitrohorse wrote:

KrisNKallen wrote:
This has been an incredibly amusing thread - which I'm pretty sure the OP did not intend. I particularly enjoyed the "wasting water" post -- how is putting the water back into the environment "wasting" it?!?!?!? Does this person have any clue how the natural water cycle works? Or where water comes from? Thank you all for a fun morning's read. ;)

The scary side to a thread like this is that these "people" are out there camping with the rational folks.

LOL, I wonder what one poster would say about me "wasting" 6 million gallons of water this year on my farm to keep my trees alive and to feed the masses? 6 million gallons of water on just 10 acres. Just think what the 300 acre farms use? :E

On a side note, I do try to conserve my waste water by cutting down on my diuretic intake during vacation. :B

KrisNKallen wrote:
This has been an incredibly amusing thread - which I'm pretty sure the OP did not intend. I particularly enjoyed the "wasting water" post -- how is putting the water back into the environment "wasting" it?!?!?!? Does this person have any clue how the natural water cycle works? Or where water comes from? Thank you all for a fun morning's read. ;)

The scary side to a thread like this is that these "people" are out there camping with the rational folks.

jeffcarp wrote:
Airplanes do not dump their waste in flight. That is an old Internet rumor. http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsid=6659

Actually they do. There are heated drain masts on the belly of the aircraft that are used to drain the grey water from lav sinks and galleys overboard. Black water is retained and emptied on the ground.

wilber1 wrote:
Good thing these folks don't know airliners drain their grey water overboard. Oops.

On a freshly wax vehicle.