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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A potable water hose should be treated differently. Ends should not be allowed to touch the ground and pick up bacteria. I keep our ends together and store the hose in opposite side of pass-through where the sewer and other dirty stuff is stored. Doesn't matter if our tank flusher grey hose gets tossed on the ground and walked all over.
If you ever take a well water sample into a testing lab, you are supposed to heat the end of the faucet with a cigarette lighter to kill any bacteria that could be present. Things you think are clean and free of pathogens may not be. It only takes one bacteria colony to multiply...
The way contamination can get back into a CG potable water system is not from the waste tank being pressurized (which it can't be anyway). It's from siphon action. For example, say a CG shut down the entire CG and the some RV sites were at high elevation and some at low elev. If you were at high elev. and hooked up to the CG faucet, when any faucet is opened at the lower elevations, water will get siphoned back into the CG system. In fact, we were at a CG last month where this exact thing happened. Without a vaccuum breaker in your RV, you could potentially contaminate many other sites.
Some campgrounds install a vaccuum breaker right at the faucet at each site to prevent possible contamination into their water distribution system.
This is absolutely correct.
Patients in hospital can get an e-coli infection during surgery or even routine procedure like colonoscopy from a contaminated instrument that has accidentally come in contact with your own "personal waste material" and gotten into your bloodstream. Can make you VERY sick or can kill.
If you ever take a well water sample into a testing lab, you are supposed to heat the end of the faucet with a cigarette lighter to kill any bacteria that could be present. Things you think are clean and free of pathogens may not be. It only takes one bacteria colony to multiply...
The way contamination can get back into a CG potable water system is not from the waste tank being pressurized (which it can't be anyway). It's from siphon action. For example, say a CG shut down the entire CG and the some RV sites were at high elevation and some at low elev. If you were at high elev. and hooked up to the CG faucet, when any faucet is opened at the lower elevations, water will get siphoned back into the CG system. In fact, we were at a CG last month where this exact thing happened. Without a vaccuum breaker in your RV, you could potentially contaminate many other sites.
Some campgrounds install a vaccuum breaker right at the faucet at each site to prevent possible contamination into their water distribution system.
2012Coleman wrote:
Humans are not immune to all the bacteria that lives in their gut and intestines. These don't make you sick because they cannot make it through to the lining of your intestines/bowels into your bloodstream. You don't have immunity to bacteria in your stomach - your immune system is in the blood - the two never come in contact with each other.
This is absolutely correct.
Patients in hospital can get an e-coli infection during surgery or even routine procedure like colonoscopy from a contaminated instrument that has accidentally come in contact with your own "personal waste material" and gotten into your bloodstream. Can make you VERY sick or can kill.
