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Wed, 14 October 2009 09:58   |
Rick Denney
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Registered: January 2004
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Rob Mueller writes...
> Mark called me this avo and we had a yak about this subject. It turns out it
> is more complicated than it appears.
I'm curious about this subject. When we rented a campervan in New
Zealand, every campground in which we stayed had a sewer dump. But we
could not find a dump where we returned the camper, and the result of
that was that we were charged an extra $100NZ for them to do it at the
rental facility in Aukland.
Maybe Maui Rentals or other large-scale motorhome rental outfit can
provide advice on how to dump in 'Stralia.
Maui also provided us with chemical pellets, with the instruction to
drop one in the tank after each dump.
I do not use any chemicals at all in Jaws. The thinking is that
natural processes work better than trying to keep the tank sterile
with formaldehyde-based deoderants. I have occasionally used products
designed to enhance the natural enzymes, which would cause no issue
with a septic system. But if I dump every three days, the smell is
never bad enough to worry about.
There are a couple of tips, though. One is to avoid using your
Fantastic Fan to exhaust the coach when using the toilet. It will draw
"air" through the tank vent and tank into the coach when the toilet
valve is open. Even when using the fan to pull air into open windows,
I will switch it to spin the other way when using the toilet to push
the fumes back into the tank and out the vent.
Another tip is not always feasible, and is unacceptable to some: No
poop on the bus. If we are in a campground that provides toilets, then
I use them.
Now, for my question. How do the cassette toilets work? If they use a
chemical (similar to a porta-potty), then that will be just as
detrimental to a septic system as anything else, especially when
dumped in one large dose. If they use "containment", then what they
contain still has to be dumped somewhere, somehow. I can't imagine
campervan owners in Australia dumping the cassettes into their toilets
at home.
I would suspect that many campgrounds in the U.S. use septic systems
rather than public sewerage, because public sewerage in the U.S. is
only available in cities for the most part. I wonder why it is not a
problem here?
Rick "curious" Denney
'73 230 Ex-Glacier "Jaws"
Northern Virginia
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