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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Duck wrote:
Every time we stopped at a new CG I would spray the faucet with a mixture of bleach and water before attaching a hose. ...
This is actually a good idea. Do you do the same when using a commonly shared faucet or a drinking fountain centrally located at parks when you don't have full hook-ups?
For the faucets and fountains that are shared (non-full hook up campgrounds ... like most Indiana State parks), I see people washing dishes, washing laundry, and kids drinking by putting their mouths on the spiggot. Now running water will blow most of anything off, but it's still a thought?
Water at your site, just like the picnic table... I always wash down the picnic table before using. Not so much for what the previous human used it for, but because you don't know what kind of animal just walked over it, or what bird just poo-ed on it, how what kinds of bugs made baby bugs on it! Same is true for the spigot at your your camp site. It's best to run it a few seconds before attaching that hose. You don't know what crawled up the pipe, and you really don't know which deer might have licked it to get a bit of water or at least try!
Really, bleach water on the spigots is a good thing. (picnic tables too).
