Dear Lance Camper,

jimh425 wrote:

rickjo wrote:
gray water is much easier to dispose of without using the hose.

Not that I'm the dump police ... but a rant is required.

I think you meant is "much easier to dispose of improperly without using the hose".

I don't think most of us are interested in camping where you find it "easier", and I don't think you'd be happy if we pulled up next to your campsite and dumped our grey water next to you either. Of course, there is no way to know where someone else might be exposed.

Rant all you want. I NEVER dispose of gray water improperly. And NEVER next to anyone's campsite. Actually never in campgrounds that don't provide a dump station. A dump station, then I use the hose. Usually those are at National Park campgrounds. Few and far between otherwise. I usually don't dispose of the water at boon docking campsites fearing others might like the site I picked as well. In more remote situations, any trace will be gone in one or two days because I use the bucket and bless the nearby flora, not the campsite. Any odor in gray water is usually a soapy smell that disappears when the water is absorbed into the ground.

I have lived with the results of home gray water for 35 years and I know what is proper and what is not. The gray water at my home does not smell. My property is large enough to have no effect on others and was approved at the time of installation. Another reason to love the dry high desert.

Rick