dewey02 wrote:
To try to get us back on track:
As I have said before in response to other questions about why a campground does this or that:
There are MANY design features built into campgrounds that are meant to influence how people use them, without having to post signs everywhere that say don't do this or don't do that. Both public and private campgrounds have been at the business of managing campgrounds for 60-70 years or more and they've learned a thing or two.
While having no threads on the end of a rinse hose may have occurred because someone drove over it an flattened the thread, it may also have been removed to quicken the time through the dump station and lessen the waiting time for others in line.
Thank you for some common sense. Here is one actual other reason. In Montana, state law requires that a hose be available to rinse down the dump station pad. That water line MUST be labeled "Non Potable" and is actually required to be constructed so that it cannot be threaded onto a fresh water fill. That is why the hose is often short (won't reach the non-pressure fill port) and why the end is cut off. Yet another reason is if the end is cut off, it is a less attractive item for a person to "inadvertently" add to their RV's inventory. When we were in the dump station business, we finally quit having fresh water fill hoses available because they developed "legs". If someone wanted to fill their tanks, they had to use their own hose. No one ever took off with the 6 foot long, end cut off, pad rinse hose.
