Use home sewer cleanout as dump station?
I have found references to dumping RV tanks into home sewer cleanouts on other forums, but nothing definitive. In colder climates, it's not allowed for fear that the hose will stay connected for more...
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S.K. wrote:beemerphile1 wrote:
Just make sure that you dump into a sanitary line and not a storm line. Other than that, no worries.
How does one distinguish the two? Do they use the same type of caps?
In my case the caps were identical. I opened one up thinking it was a sewer and I could see it was a dry well (a pit full of stones). I opened up 2 others farther upstream that appeared to be on the same run. One was another dry well the other was a cleanout. All 3 were for rain water management - NOT sewer. When I looked inside the cleanout it could easily have been mistaken for a sewer.
I ultimately did find the correct sewer cleanout in my yard. Visually it looked like it could be on the same run as the storm water management but it wasn't. A sure way to tell is to open up what you suspect is your sewer cleanout and have someone flush while you shine a flashlight down in there and/or listen for running water.
