White hose and black tank flush?
Just to be clear I have two separate hoses, a white water hose for providing potable water to the camper and a regular green hose for flushing the black water tank. I hear (and read) people all the t...
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2012Coleman wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
Honestly, most of it is paranoia. I usually rinse things down with the parks hose attached at the dump station. I certainly wouldn't stick the hose end into the tank or down the toilet. Use lots of water when flushing and make sure the tank is at least 3/4 full before dumping and you really don't need to clean the blackwater tank.
Not true. I took this advice as a newbie, then bought a clear connector to test the theory. Proved to be false. I always wand out my black than then add a few gallons of water and the blue stuff.
Been camping since I was a little kid. My dad never cleaned out his tank and I never cleaned out mine. Never had an issue. If it makes you feel better feel free to clean your black tank but it's not needed.valhalla360 wrote:
But in terms of catching something, it's your poo. If you sat on the seat to make a deposit, odds are darn good you already came in contact with the bugs, so unless, you just invited typhoid mary over for sit, you aren't going to catch anything.
This is ignorant - hopefully no one pays attention to it.Please share what is wrong with my statment rather than just making a random assertion. We don't let random people use our RV toilet, so it's just the two of us. We have already been in contact with the pathogens we deposit. The stray bacteria that makes it upstream past a leaky check valve is unlikely to get us when the original contact didn't get us.
Unfortuantely, when this type of discussion comes up emotion often overtakes facts.
