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Re: Borrego-Palm Canyon dump station closing
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Yahoo Message Number: 88462
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This "notice" was posted in the "Overnight RV parking" group, so I thought I'd pass it along; scroll the page to "Dump Station Closing":
 http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=638 
Joan
The blurb on the park's website says "...above normal levels of Total Nitrogen, which has the potential to contaminate groundwater..." have been detected.  I know nothing about this stuff but am wondering if the dump station holding tanks are self-contained (I can't imagine a septic drain field would be used, especially in California)and pumped out via honey wagon, how could ground water be comtaminated unless the tanks leaked?  I can't imagine RVers using this dump station were more likely to use a disproportionate amount of contaminating chemicals than anywhere else in the US.

Inquiring minds want to know...

Chris
Formerly: 2002 30' IB
 
Re: Borrego-Palm Canyon dump station closing
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Yahoo Message Number: 88465
"Chris Horst"  wrote: "I can't imagine a septic drain field would be used, especially in California..." -- Chris, I don't *know* the type of septic system (or *if* it's a traditional "spetic system") used at the state park campground in Anza- Borrego, or when it was originally built, but I would really doubt that it's a "self-contained" pump-out-only tank.
 In California, residential septic systems (and, AFAIK, "commercial", e.g., an RV park in a rural area not served by sewer lines) virtually always use a leach (drain) field. Each county (in CA, and, I would think, anywhere else) has its own standards, "perc test" requirements, and regulations for (getting permits and constructing) septic systems; depending on location, soils, groundwater contamination probabilities, population densities, and several other variables, some counties' rules are *very* stringent, while others are less so. One would have to check each county's specific requirements for current septic system design and construction.

Joan
2003 TK has a new home