Yellostone Fishing Bridge RV park - raised sewer connection

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SNOW!!!

I have wound up in worse places. The dump port was about 30 inches off the ground at a place where my RV was going to be for a festival. I could put my rig up on blocks, deal with "walking" the sewage via the hose... or the third option...

I bought a macerator pump, and it made is quite easy to empty uphill, nothing fancy needed, other than making sure the oversize water hose was something obvious (rubber, black, stamped with "NOT FOR POTABLE USE"), so it would never be used for anything but sewage.

First, they get a lot of snow there. In the spring they come in with plows and front end loaders to remove most of the snow. Then, they hand dig out the connections. The concrete and all the posts prevent the connections from being ripped out in the snow removal process.

Second, you were parked on the wrong side of your space. It worked for you but you were backwards. Sometimes you just have to make it work with what you have.

Keith

DSDP Don wrote:
LOL....Yes you were parked wrong. Been there many times. They're weird sites and because they're old sites, they're small when it comes to width. By parking opposite of what you did, it allows both RV's on both sides of the double row to back in a little farther. They were not designed to have large patio areas. By doing what you did, you blocked your patio with your car. The proof is in how much hose you had to use. If in the site properly, you would have needed about 5' of hose, not 20'.

Better look again there bud.




I was absolutely parked the only logical way to park in that site. The other side would have my camper door opening directly into the grass and trees.

Not to mention where the SUV is shown was more shallow, it made no sense to even consider placing the camper there.

LOL....Yes you were parked wrong. Been there many times. They're weird sites and because they're old sites, they're small when it comes to width. By parking opposite of what you did, it allows both RV's on both sides of the double row to back in a little farther. They were not designed to have large patio areas. By doing what you did, you blocked your patio with your car. The proof is in how much hose you had to use. If in the site properly, you would have needed about 5' of hose, not 20'.

2012Coleman wrote:

RinconVTR wrote:
As far as the raised connection, I'm really only hearing guesses and I'm really surprised by that!

From your research, looks like downtheroad nailed it - did you read the responses to your own question?

downtheroad wrote:
They would flood and over whelm the septic system if they were at ground level.

There was more than one correct response. But what makes one response correct and the other guys wrong with no reference that gives one more weight than the other?

Yellowstone Fishing bridge is by far NOT the only campground in mountains nor the snow belt. Every state has campgounds with full hook ups that can flood. And how about down south and any coastal campgrounds where hurricanes and tropical storms are not uncommon. They do not all have raised connections.

Its clear (to me anyway) this is a rare measure of prevention for a possible...even assumed problem. If Fishing Bridge for example, tightly capped all their connections before they closed for the winter (which I know they do anyway, as not to attract animals)...would that not provide the same result?

RinconVTR wrote:
As far as the raised connection, I'm really only hearing guesses and I'm really surprised by that!

From your research, looks like downtheroad nailed it - did you read the responses to your own question?

downtheroad wrote:
They would flood and over whelm the septic system if they were at ground level.

My question went thru 3 managers at NPS in Yellowstone until one of them forwarded it to a the civil engineering contractor hired by NPS;

...from our memories the connections were raised to keep infiltration from surface water runoff from entering the services, the maintenance staff wanted to keep them up off the ground to keep rocks and debris out if possible, there was also some talk from maintenance about putting the bends in the wyes above ground because garbage was getting placed down the pipes directly into the mains. The connections are actually more like 6-8” except for the couple of sites at the far east end where the mains are shallow and there wasn’t enough room between mains and the fittings required. Hope this answers the question.

Look at the class C behind them, that connection looks to be almost 18" above ground!