Grey water disposal grouse

[Mandarin]

Why do most sites seem to have combined grey/black water disposal points raised off the ground? That's OK for black water but lifting 40 kg of grey water 2 feet in the air is crazy.

Or am I missing something all this time?

 

[Damian]

They dont!
Most sites have the drinking water tap and next to it a grey water disposal , with its own tap for rinsing the waste water tank, both at ground level.

 

[otherclive]

Just as Damian has said I’ve never come across a grey water point at raised level.

 

[Buckman]

We have come across a couple. I remember oOne at Lichfield caravan site where you had to life it at least 2 foot as the drain was shaped like a wishing well. Another was on a CMC site at Bridport where the waste pipe was a foot off the ground on a serviced pitch. Since when does water run uphill?

 

[Dustydog]

Only once have I had this problem, a long time ago. We all used the Motorhome dump point.

 

[Gralay]

The sites we go to have separate disposal points except one CL near Mablethorpe and that is about 2ft high so I fill wastemaster with the lower top hole and empty more often. Its easier in long run

 

[Raywood]

This is very rare and if that is the best they can do I do not go back.

 

[Mandarin]

Currently sitting on a site in Norfolk like this, last summer on a site in Cornwall the same. Having only been caravanning for 2 years and this is only our 2nd trip this year maybe we've had bad luck?

 

[Parksy]

If I ever went to a site where I was expected to lift a full grey water container high off the ground to empty it, the grey water would go along the base of the nearest hedge. 🤨

 

[McLosi]

Only been to 2 sites.... First one was raised and I did make a comment to someone else there that it's not ideal having to lift it. He said he didn't and just emptied it into the stream! I was able to pick ours up so did so. Glad that's not a common feature and the site I'm at now is ground level.

 

[Gozza2]

I've only been on one site where the grey waste point was raised, and that was an agricultural showground which occasionally hosted conferences where the delegates camped / caravanned. Just as Mandarin describes, the grey and black waste points were side by side and about 3 feet off the ground. I found an "unofficial" grey waste point behind some portacabins where a manhole cover had been left open for the grey and black waste from the cabins to be piped into (I was on site as a volunteer worker and it was an area I was allowed to be).

Everywhere else I've used, grey waste has been at ground level, except two sites where I was allowed to pipe my grey waste to a land drain alongside the field, without using a wastemaster.