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HuckFinn410
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Jun 03, 2014

Left Bleach in FW tank…ooops. How long is safe?

Seasonal site…haven’t used the fresh water tank in at least a year. Last weekend, I put about 2 cups of bleach into the 30 gallon fresh tank to sanitize it, filled up tank with fresh water…..also ble...
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HuckFinn410
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Jun 26, 2014
OP here. Just to follow up on this. After about 3 weeks (that's as soon as I could make it to the camper) of approx. 3 cups of bleach sitting in my 30 gallon fresh water tank, I drained it and all is fine. No adverse effects....and the smell of bleach was minimal. I did run some through all the water line and drained and refilled the fresh tank.

It's sparkling clean now!

Just thought I'd follow up on my own original post....I like it when others do it, so I thought that I would.

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