SCVJeff wrote:
4x4van wrote:
westernrvparkowner wrote:
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's funny, since most older RVs have a gravity fill inlet for their fresh water tank, and a cut-off hose will actually fit into that inlet while a threaded end won't.:D
Any hose I have seen won't come remotely close to reaching my gravity fill
Trying to get away from the above unnecessary silly squabbling and back to the OP's question:
We've volunteered in national and state parks and we were told that the reason the hose is cut off is to discourage folks from thinking that it's potable water which they can use to fill their fresh water tank.
If the park has a potable water fill it will be away from the dump holes.
There are many new RVers out there who quite possibly do not know the difference between potable and non-potable.
