Dumping Black Water On The Ground?

Mootpoint wrote:
I know of a person who did not like the car behind him following so close. Being a plumber by trade, he had a homemade electric valve system on the control panel and had his wife push the button for a second. Did I mention he failed to see the colored light array on top of the vehicle behind him?
It cost him a whole bunch of greenbacks to rectify the situation right down to paying for a hazmat crew to clean up the road.

Reminds me in 2011 when I was looking for a used TT. Went to look at one, started inspecting it. It had automatic valves that apparently hooked up to some apparatus in the guy's truck. However, when I looked down the toilet, I saw tarmac.

I asked him about it, and he said it was so he could dump all tanks while moving. However, he started ranting, and from his convoluted story, apparently he dropped a load of black water right in front of a DPS vehicle (DPS is Texas's equivalent of the CHP.)

After a $3500 fine (and I think he also had some other penalties), he just dropped the black tank from his TT and lets the stuff fall where it may when he goes camping.

Needless to say, I didn't buy his trailer. In fact, after the horror stories I had looking at used trailers, I bought a new model, called it done.

Of course, come SXSW, there are always storm drains in parts of Austin which smell like black water for a few weeks after the festival... and oddly enough, the same area where a number of dilapidated motorhomes parallel park nearby.

Texas police and troopers, as a whole, tend have not much tolerance for black water dumpers. Mainly because it is being done so often, coupled with the fact that it can foul a complete watershed (and with a constant drought, the smelly water dries and stays bad for a long time), that even dumping fresh water can get someone with a badge around asking pointed questions.