Where's this brown water come from?
After dumping the black tank at the camp site, I disconnected the city water and flush the tank through the sani-flush. I then asked DW to turn on the pump to add water & chemical into the toilet. Sh...
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Thank you all for the replies! There are lots of good suggestions here and I'm not going to response to individually.
To sum it up, my TT is a new-to-me unit on my 3rd season of ownership. Each year at the beginning of camping season, I sanitize the FW tank with chlorine overnight. Before each trip, I'd fill up with municipal water & drain before fill to the require amount for road use. This time out, we stayed at FHU site the whole trip so I only carried 1/2 tank of water for the overnight drive from BC to Bend, OR. I always separate my potable water hose from the sewer flush hose except I use a regular garden hose to fill my tank at home. I always fill my tank through a Camco KDF filter which I replace every season.
The water in the FW tank was about a week old. I drained the remaining (2-3 gal) this morning in a bucket and it was clear as can be.
The only possible cause I can think of is the sediment in my HW tank somehow get in the cold water supply. We had a plumbing failure a couple of nights before I dumped the BW tank. A fitting at the HW tank outlet came loose at midnight, (that's another story), and I had to shut off the water supply plus opening the low point drain to stop residual water from oozing out from the open hose. I also opened the HW tank pressure relief valve momentarily to ensure the system was no longer pressurized until I could attend to in the morning. I know for a fact that the check valve at the HW is not working properly. Could it be possible the sediment from HW tank got in the cold system while I cut off the park water supply? Water pressure at this CG was on the low side esp. with the pressure regulator I added to the system. It didn't stir up the sediment in the HW tank after the fitting was fixed but the on board pump pressure was high enough to stir it up. It was only a short burst of brown water and it didn't smell at all. It went away after a couple of flushes. Just my paranoid DW was concerned and suggested I might have to re-sanitize the system again.
To sum it up, my TT is a new-to-me unit on my 3rd season of ownership. Each year at the beginning of camping season, I sanitize the FW tank with chlorine overnight. Before each trip, I'd fill up with municipal water & drain before fill to the require amount for road use. This time out, we stayed at FHU site the whole trip so I only carried 1/2 tank of water for the overnight drive from BC to Bend, OR. I always separate my potable water hose from the sewer flush hose except I use a regular garden hose to fill my tank at home. I always fill my tank through a Camco KDF filter which I replace every season.
The water in the FW tank was about a week old. I drained the remaining (2-3 gal) this morning in a bucket and it was clear as can be.
The only possible cause I can think of is the sediment in my HW tank somehow get in the cold water supply. We had a plumbing failure a couple of nights before I dumped the BW tank. A fitting at the HW tank outlet came loose at midnight, (that's another story), and I had to shut off the water supply plus opening the low point drain to stop residual water from oozing out from the open hose. I also opened the HW tank pressure relief valve momentarily to ensure the system was no longer pressurized until I could attend to in the morning. I know for a fact that the check valve at the HW is not working properly. Could it be possible the sediment from HW tank got in the cold system while I cut off the park water supply? Water pressure at this CG was on the low side esp. with the pressure regulator I added to the system. It didn't stir up the sediment in the HW tank after the fitting was fixed but the on board pump pressure was high enough to stir it up. It was only a short burst of brown water and it didn't smell at all. It went away after a couple of flushes. Just my paranoid DW was concerned and suggested I might have to re-sanitize the system again.
