Draining water

This is my operations for catching gray water. I use a couple of the AQUA-TAINER 7.5 GALLON totes to catch the sink water. I rigged up a short water hose that pushes down into the tote. When one gets full then I move the hose to the empty tote and haul off the full one to the camp bath room. I have same connections for the cassette shower combo you can see here under the fridge vents...


The black water of the cassette potti has its own 6-gallon tank with wheels.


I use a two wheeled folding cart to haul the totes with and bring back fresh water.


It is amazing how much water one has to tote off during one day... Wears me out sometimes...

Roy Ken

What year is the Sequoia? I ask because they went through a couple of design changes on the gray and black water connections.

On the '06 model that I have, the gray and black water both terminate at a standard 4" bayonet sewer outlet, not a garden hose variety. That's because mine has an actual 6 gallon black water holding tank. Other years, they have a cassette potty so no need for a black water drain underneath.

It irked me that Fleetwood put both the black and gray drains into one 4" outlet. On most TTs that have both types of tanks onboard, you dump the black then use the gray to "rinse" the lines. Not so when you only can hold black water in a tank.

Without a gray water holding tank, I have to hook up my blue tote to outlet and leave they gray valve opened all of the time. Unfortunately, there is some residual black water in the outlet and that gets into the blue tote. Since at least in my mind, it makes sense to treat gray water and black water with different handling processes, I hated having to treat the gray water blue tote as black now because a small leakage or residue.

So, the '06 is definitely a different critter. Other years around it may be the same but I think they changed up the design to go back to a cassette potty on the highwalls.

To me, it didn't really matter having a "real porcelain toilet" as Fleetwood made it a selling point, but I sure hated the shared outlet to the point I actually divided them into separate outlets. Pictured below is original outlet on the left, with the gray line capped off and on the right is the new gray-only outlet. It makes life a little easier except for the rare occasions where I have full hookups. Which is like never anyway, but that's easily remedied for the odd times when it does happen.

Thanks all...sounds easy enough.

Great answers... I couldn't add a thing.

get a portable grey water tank (the blue ones) and use it if you want to shower in your pup. The drain connection for the Sequoia is outside on the door side just next to the shower.

We recently got rid of our sequoia, but I never used the shower. Still, it was a great rig!

Should be a garden hose connection on drain.........connect a garden hose and then drain into a jug or a waste tote.

Then cart jug/tote as needed to dump site and empty.

Our 1999 Starcraft Venture PUP did not have a holding tank either. It had a drain on the side of the trailer where you could hook up a garden hose. I took an old garden hose and cut a short section off it but left the end that attached to the camper. I then used a blue 6 gallon jug to catch the water. Ours did not have a shower, only a sink. I then took the jug to the nearest bathroom, pit toilet, or wherever, and emptied it. Funny, we still have the blue jug, and 6 more. I did mark that one for sink water and do occasionally use it catch "gray" water from various sources. The other 6 containers are used for fresh water, for extra water when camping and anticipated power outages at home (since we are on a well at home).

Notice the blue jug at the back end of the camper: