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reubenray · 05-31-2014, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by chuckftboy

State Parks here in Florida have electric and water but no sewer. When tanks are full, I just unhook and dump. Takes all of 20 minutes to pull the slides and levelers, dump and set up again. Sure beats 4 or 5 trips with a blueboy.

It is those parks that made me ask this question. I am in one now with full hookups and it is nice not having to take Navy showers and walk to the facility building. Especially being it has been storming. We spent a week at Bahia Honda and did find we did OK with the capacity of the tanks. We took only a few showers at their facility and used the restrooms mostly during the day. When I dumped this was one of the few times I could not flush my black tank. They had a sprayer setup on the hose where I could not hook up a hose to my tank.

BpK9Miami · 05-31-2014, 04:34 AM

On the few occasions this happened to me, I've used the dump station (usually every couple days), without a major disruption in the overall plan. It also saves you the room taken up by the big ole blue boy.

GG1 · 05-31-2014, 05:15 AM

We have been staying at federal and state facilities for the past several years. We prefer them over private campgrounds. For that reason I bought a blue tank and installed a hitch on our toad. We have it down to a routene. Every few days I hook up the blue tank to the toad and make a few trips to the dump station with gray water I never put black water in the tank. We use the shower and washing machine as if we had a sewer hookup. Every seven to ten days we break down and dump the black tank and flush it out at the dump station. Its really not a big deal.

gemini5362 · 05-31-2014, 11:28 PM

I often stay at Corps of Engineers campgrounds which have electric, water and no sewer. Like other posters I just pull in slides raise jacks and go to dumping station. Here is my idea on how to reduce the number of trips it takes to the dumping station.

http://www.irv2.com/forums/f258/grey...nk-205329.html

It is going to be about two weeks before I can get to my MH to install the necessary pump and plumbing to try this out. I am going to take the advice of some posters in my thread and put a filter before the pump.

WheelingIt · 06-01-2014, 12:03 AM

For just a few weeks we make do on our tanks. We use the campground showers, conserve inside the RV and dump when we move. With good conservation you can go a long time between dumps. We can go up to 4 weeks (the max we've ever gone) on our 60 gallon grey, 40 gallon black. 2 weeks is easy, 3 weeks is stretch.