Dumping RV tanks into home syptic system
For the five or 6 years that I have been RV'ing, for convenience, I would sometimes dump my tanks into my home septic system upon returning home. While I have felt pretty comfortable doing this, I h...
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korbe wrote:Old-Biscuit wrote:nevadanick wrote:
There are plenty of rv parks on septic systems.
Ding ding ding............winner chicken dinner :B
I don't use any chemicals but 1000's of RVrs do and dump daily into CG septic systems.
Doesn't appear to be an issue at the CGs
Not too long ago in our neck of the California woods, the county Health Dept. required a propsed RV Park to include a dump station in it's design. The dump station was a separate system and was only a holding tank for periodic transfer and disposal at the large regional sewage facility.
The RV park itself had an advanced design re-circulating sand filter disposal system that would not work with the formaldehyde chemicals found in some of the "black tank perfumes". The RV park was to ask anyone coming into the park to dump at the dump station first if they had any chemicals in their tanks.
That made me remember. My inlaws stay at an RV park that requires you can only use their chemicals. They give you little single use packets to put in your tank when you check in. I think it is some Indian Casino if I remember right in Gold counrty
Chris
