Portable Waste Tanks: Who Uses Them

jkjenn

I am considering a couple of 5 day stints at campgrounds without dump stations. They have pit toilets, so I will use them, minus the occasional late or middle of the night event. But, what about your grey water. I think my T@b holds 11 gallons, which is not a lot. Does anyone use one and if so, what size and what advice can you offer to help me get it inside the TV to take to a dump station? In one case I am planning on a NP Campground and in another a FS CG.

PS, I am familiar with water conservation techniques.

Cyclonic

We recently spent two weeks at a campground without a dump station.  I couldn't see the logic in spending the kind of money those cost, so I got a regular water jug at Wal-mart, seven gallons, and wrote "gray water" on it.  I have a cover on the end of my gray water that allows you to put a regular hose into it, so I hooked a hose in, found a low spot, and let the water drain into that.  When it was full I took it to a slop sink at the bath house to dump it.  Worked well.  For five days it should work well as a back up to your gray water tank even if you can't dump it there.

jkjenn

Well, I know at least one of my stops only has a pit toilet and I believe dumping that much grey water in a pit toilet might not be welcomed, but I guess I could use the same idea and take it to a dump station. I am thinking the portable tank can be towed in other places to the sump station.

Nomad

I've been in some BLMs that allow gray water dumping. And I've seen people doing dishes in a tub rather than in the sink that fills the gray water. They just water the plants with it.
It kind of comes down to the actual sites you're in - relaxed rules in some, others more strict. Some of the BLM around Quartzite even allow you to dig your own toilet hole (cat hole?)

jkjenn

I can see BLM sites allowing that, but not USFS or NP campgrounds.

Nomad

Some USFS are similar to BLM dispersed.
Some dump sites are a ways away, probably too far to tow behind the Jeep - Would you then load it into the Jeep?
The only time I've seen anyone with/using a tote was within a campgrounds that had a dump station so they didn't have to haul it more than a city block or two.