Sanitize Fresh Tank & Bleach
I would like to sanitize the fresh tank. My RV owners manual (& what I've found on the internet) says to use bleach with 5% sodium hypochlorite. The problem is all the bleach in the stores is now "c...
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Wishbone51 wrote:TechWriter wrote:
AWWA C651 is a set of recommendations for disinfecting water mains (or large pipes). To me, it hardly seems applicable to RV water systems which consist of small pipes and a water box.
What's the difference? It seems to me that it's still 100PPM touching a surface. Why does it matter how much surface? It's all being exposed simultaneously.
The difference is that AWWA C651 is a standard for city water systems and NFPA 1192 is for RVs.
sh410 wrote:
CDC recommends 100ppm of household bleach and contact for 12Hrs
CDC page
. . . and this CDC link is for "Emergency Disinfection of Cisterns and Other Rain-Catchment Systems", not RVs.
