Dump Rage

K_and_I wrote:

kginder wrote:
I feel all of your waiting pain... I used to be one.

A few years ago I was getting my septic pumped and noticed the riser top the guy took off was fiberglass. I looked at the guy and said "This is fiberglass." He looked at me and said "Yay?" I told him I could drill a hole and put a clean out in it. He said "Yay?"
I bought a hundred feet of sewer hose and voila.
Now mind you, it is a pretty steep downhill from the RV to the clean out so there's no chance of stragglers.
Basically a poop autobahn. I've never been happier.
Keith

Maybe...when running sewer pipe, there is a maximum slope allowed to keep the liquid from running off too quickly and leaving the solids behind. It's been many years since I've run pipe, but it sticks in my mind that it's around 1" slope in 10' run.

Code actually allows anything between 1/4 inch per foot to 3 inches per foot. I have put in a lot of sewer lines, had them inspected, and never has the inspector put a level on the lines. Unless you live in Kansas, it is often impossible to occasionally not have greater slopes due to the contour of the land. Also, dumping an RV tank is much different than normal septic flow. Even if you poop like an elephant, you won't be putting 50 gallons of sewage into the system at a single flush. And even if your walk in shower sprays like firehose, you won't be able to follow that up with 50 gallons of gray water to flush the lines.
BTW, I doubt anyone ever checks the slope on their sewer hose when they dump at the dump station. All anyone cares about, or needs to care about, is if it flows downhill.