Water Faucets at campgrounds
There is a water faucet that says "no cleaning or washing" on it. I think it's for filling water jugs, and RVs. People are constantly washing their feet, hands, etc. in it. So, I said something ...
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dahkota wrote:Tvov wrote:
I have not yet been to a campground, private or state park, where the water spigots cannot be used for filling the fresh water tank of a camper. Many places have signs that you cannot have your camper stay hooked up, but filling is okay. This is all camping in the Northeast, so keep that in mind.
In many places, particularly federal campgrounds, unthreaded spigots are provided to keep people from filling tanks. If one must use a water thief to fill up a tank, chances are the campground one is in is trying to discourage the filling of tanks.
Exactly. I am a retired Forest Service Recreation Program Manager. We had 27 campgrounds (not campsites) and the spigots deliberately were unthreaded to discourage RV hookups. We did not have a sign at the spigot that said no RV hookups because you could fill an entire campground with signs telling people what not to do. You hope common sense prevails. Almost all of our wells ran on solar pumps that filled a water holding tank. These are meant for small withdrawals over the course of a day, not a 75-100 gallon withdrawal at one time.
