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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From what I know: It isn't about germs, it is winding up with enough germs that one's immune system cannot fight them all.
One doesn't need a full Tyvek NBC suit to empty the waste tanks, and if one is confident that the check valve and the tank not being full is fine, that is their prerogative.
It is about diminishing returns. I wear gloves, but I don't bother rinsing out the slinky, as that is what the gray water tank is for.
Because I use a macerator pump with my current rig, I have three sets of hoses. A white hose for filling up the fresh water tank and for city water hookups. A green hose for backflushing. Then, I have a black rubber hose that has clearly marked on it from the factor, "NOT FOR POTABLE WATER", which I use for the macerator pump's discharge hose. The green and the white hose can be interchanged with low risk of contamination, but are stored in different tubs. The black hose is stored in the bed of my truck, while the other hoses are in tubs inside the TT's storage compartment. Nothing is fool-proof, but this at least adds some obvious obstacles in the way of using the wrong hose, so the chance of brown water in the FW tank is low.
One doesn't need a full Tyvek NBC suit to empty the waste tanks, and if one is confident that the check valve and the tank not being full is fine, that is their prerogative.
It is about diminishing returns. I wear gloves, but I don't bother rinsing out the slinky, as that is what the gray water tank is for.
Because I use a macerator pump with my current rig, I have three sets of hoses. A white hose for filling up the fresh water tank and for city water hookups. A green hose for backflushing. Then, I have a black rubber hose that has clearly marked on it from the factor, "NOT FOR POTABLE WATER", which I use for the macerator pump's discharge hose. The green and the white hose can be interchanged with low risk of contamination, but are stored in different tubs. The black hose is stored in the bed of my truck, while the other hoses are in tubs inside the TT's storage compartment. Nothing is fool-proof, but this at least adds some obvious obstacles in the way of using the wrong hose, so the chance of brown water in the FW tank is low.
