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Dave_Jeanette
Explorer
Feb 05, 2019

Looking at buying a portable black tank - suggestions?

We are looking at buying a portable tank in order to be able to dump our tanks when staying at a site for more than 7 or 8 days without sewer hookup. Our black tank is 50 gallons and the largest one I...
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Bobbo
Explorer III
Feb 06, 2019
Dick_B wrote:
Maybe it's my hangup but I don't use my blue tote for Black Tank contents because, IMHO, there is no way to clean it sufficiently to keep it from smelling up the area where it is stored.

Grey water can smell every bit as bad as black water. That being said, we use the tanks sparingly when boondocking, and when we need to dump, I break camp and tow the trailer.

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