Portable Waste Tanks: Who Uses Them

jkjenn
jkjenn Member Posts: 6,417
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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.

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  • Cyclonic
    Cyclonic Member Posts: 1,232
    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.

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  • jkjenn
    jkjenn Member Posts: 6,417
    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.

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  • Nomad
    Nomad Member Posts: 7,209
    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?)
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  • jkjenn
    jkjenn Member Posts: 6,417
    I can see BLM sites allowing that, but not USFS or NP campgrounds.

    2021 T@b 320 Boondock "Mattie Ross" | 2021 T@b Nights: 239 | Total nights in a T@b 455 | 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Overland | T@b owner since 2014

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  • Nomad
    Nomad Member Posts: 7,209
    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.
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