westernrvparkowner wrote:
You should "spike" all your sewer connections. All you need to do is dig down about 6 inches along the side of each connection and put thin wire thru the middle of the PVC. The fancy way to do it is drill small holes and use stainless steel wire. The fast, easy way, (my way) is to run a 6 inch fencing screw across.
Waste will easily pass over the spike, however sewer hoses, connectors, tennis balls dropped in by children and the like will hang up. So will diapers, wash cloths and other assorted things people think can be flushed, but can't. Much easier to fish them out 6 inches into the pipe than from who knows where in the main lines.
We do have most of our risers spiked with 7" galvanized gutter nails, we hold them with vise grips, heat them with a torch and push them through pvc about a foot deep.
This spring we trenched in, placed second farther back sewer risers at a few sites for the TTers with rear dumps so they could use a short hose. Those did not get spiked. Felt it unnecessary at the time due to the run and T into the mainline. Now all will be spiked.
If the folks who lost their slinky down our pipe would give me their name and address, We would gladly return his destroyed hose, clean at at our cost, with a coupon for a free months camping at any and every park on the continent.
