Grey Water

[Mikey1]

I believe you cant empty grey water within 20 mts of a water source ie river stream etc

 

[Del_374232870]

when emtying the hot water tank I switch of the heater and run the hot tap until I only have cold in the tank then drain it, that way I dont scortch and kill the grass, seen many vaners empty the boiling water strigght onto the pitch and you then get a dead patch of grass for next ocupants. Onboard cold tank gets emptied while we travel as there is more water to drain.

 

[Rodger Dodger]

I stayed at a CC&C site in Surrey just off the A3 which has a large fishing lake earlier this year in the hot weather( remember!) An American motorhome, of medium size with air con etc, was pitched next to the water disposal point some 25 feet away. On the Sunday morning, as he was packing up, he opens the waste valve and pours the contents of the waste tank all over the pitch.

I think that there was a MH disposal point up by the office, so in my opinion, this was being purely lazy and arrogant. Surely they have room for a waste container to empty it properly.

Being a tent site as well I wonder what the next person thought.

Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself is a hard one to knock in my book.

 

[MikeJE]

Colin-Yorkshire made the comment on 3rd. Sept. that grey water will kill marine life. So will fresh drinking water unless it has been exposed to air for some time to rid it of chemicals.

 

[xtrailman]

When ever we arrive at a new site, we ask where is the water tap, the elson, and where do you what the grey waste disposing.

The site owner often has his own ideas re the grey water.

Dumping the waste onto the pitch, is out of order, and no site owner has ever asked me to dump it on pitch.

I don't have a lot of time for the the environment agency, dumping sewage into rivers and the sea is not my idea of protecting the environment.

 

[Chris_Hyde_Cheshire.]

I was away last week and had to lift my waste-hog onto a two foot wall to empty it at the correct point which was next to the drinking water point. As people have already said, the tap there is for swilling out the waste-hog. However, as this was connected to the same feed as the drinking water tap unless the two taps had check valves in them (which they did not as they were too small)there was no way of stopping cross contamination. The two drains were also connected because when you emptied into the correct one, it backfilled up the drinking water one because the extra height gave it the necessary head to do so. As I work on a wastewater(sewage)treatment works and know a little about the subject, I thought too hell with this, there is no advantage to using the correct point, however the main disadvantage was the risk of me putting my back out!!!

I presume you can work the rest out.........

Chris Ryan.

 

[forestgump]

i agree last week had to lift waste hog up 2 foot to empty

my kids or miss could not do this went to site last week they said empty gray water into hedge it will take more nthan you can through at it

 

[DenisD]

As regards emptying hot water tanks I stayed at a CL in Dover for 10 days, a site which is mainly used as a stopover for the ferries. The lawned grass is covered with brown spots were the grass has been killed with hot water. The site owner is so concerned she is considering putting a notice on the entrance gate.

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

The same dead grass I saw at Kidlington a couple of weeks ago although I didn't realise what it was. This reminds me why I collect it in a bucket and empty it down the waste drain :O)

 

[Del_374232870]

If you switch of the water heater then run the hot tap until it comes cold, you dont need to put a bucket underneath when draining, the hot water is collected by the waste master and when you drain the tank it is full of cold water so no problems.