TURNKEY wrote:
"do the right thing" ?????? I could have just shat in the pit toilet! Same net effect. Geesh! And it's often not a 'few' miles. It can be an hour or two each way. I travel in the southwest a lot. There are areas with very few services.
I think you missed the key point in his reply -- wilderness pit toilets are meant to handle individual users, not 40 gallons of waste at once from an RV's holding tank.
If you said you were emptying a 4 gallon cassette toilet, that would be one thing, but dumping an entire RV holding tank is something else entirely.
The US Forest Service
says:
Toilet buildings are not suitable locations for emptying motor home or camping trailer gray or black water due to the large volume of material holding tanks can contain. If there is no specifically identified facility in a campground for emptying holding tanks campers must keep the material in the tanks until they can locate an appropriate dump station. It is illegal to dump these materials on Forest Service lands at any location other than in a specifically identified dump facility, and tickets will be issued to violators.
