Learning the Hard Way January 24, 2017, 03:26:55 am The following is a cut & paste, modified for a smaller post. This incident happened to a Class A owner and posted in another forum.Quote We left camp for the morning and got a call early in the afternoon from a neighboring camper that water was coming out of our rig from under the vanity slide. She said she turned the water off at the spigot. We did not have it turned on, so we were confused. We arrived a short time later to a stinky mess. We'd left the hose connected to the black water flush, and a worker at the camp turned the spigot on while working on the system, and he left it on. What a freaking mess! Thank goodness the ground here is soft and we weren't level. At least the water drained to the side and back instead of flooding out the whole rig. We learned a big lesson about leaving hoses connected. So now we have yanked the drawers and are trying to lift the false floors under them to dry the darn thing. Oh, and we are also thankful we'd just flushed the system the night before, so it wasn't as black as it could have been. This story certainly reinforces the value of disconnecting from city water when leaving the camping area. I don't know if we could ever get over the fact that the inside of our loved LD had once filled with black water.And so it goes.
Re: Learning the Hard Way Reply #1 – January 24, 2017, 05:04:56 am A lot of people, us included, never hook up to city water but always run off the pump.That way, worse case, the flood is limited to the fresh water tank capacity vs the capacity of the community reservoir.Ed 1 Likes
Re: Learning the Hard Way Reply #2 – January 24, 2017, 11:45:23 am I'm with Ed. I haven't connected to city water in at least ten years. And while I do backflush my tanks when dumping (using a HydroFlush attachment), I can't imagine leaving a water hose connected to a tank flusher of any kind one second longer than necessary! 2 Likes As an Amazon Associate Lazy Daze Owners' Group earns from qualifying purchases.
Re: Learning the Hard Way Reply #3 – January 24, 2017, 01:05:09 pm This begs the question, "Is there only one city water connection at a "full" hook up site"?In all my years, I have only had sites with electrical hook ups available. If there is only one water outlet at a site such as these, is one expected to use the water for both "fresh drinking water" and "flushing" the black tank?That would pose a serious "cross contamination" hazard.Is this the case? Or is a "full" hook up site similar to the campground dump facility?Kent
Re: Learning the Hard Way Reply #4 – January 24, 2017, 01:10:17 pm "That would pose a serious "cross contamination" hazard."A properly built water line will have a back flow preventer installed to prevent cross contamination.That is precisely why the non-threaded water connectors you see in some campgrounds should never be used for any purpose other than filling a bucket. They do not have backflow preventers.Ed
Re: Learning the Hard Way Reply #5 – January 24, 2017, 01:39:02 pm But of coursethis year the only anti siphon device I have seen across the country has been in Florida state parks. Cheap plastic back flow preventers they have added in the last year. It is hard to unscrew your hose or filter without taking the backflow preventer with it. Yikes! 😳
Re: Learning the Hard Way Reply #6 – January 29, 2017, 04:53:40 pm Hi Kent. Most of us carry two water hoses. At a full hook up site, the fresh water hose usually white with a blue stripe is used to fill my tank. Like Andy I don't leave it connected. Stored safely away the rest of the time, and the one water source, hose bib, turned off. (recently in the desert I found a black widow spider cozily stowed away inside the open portion. I had to flush her out before hooking up my hose.) Usually I just dump into the sites sewer connection, using the gray water to rinse out the dump hose. If I were to rinse the blackwater tank, I have a green hose just for that. Run through the window, with a ball valve at the end, I open the toilet valve and run the hose water into the tank. No contact allowed with the hose at either end. I have seen people with spray bottles of bleach spray down water faucets before using them. Maybe a little overkill, maybe not. RonB
Re: Learning the Hard Way Reply #7 – January 29, 2017, 06:07:29 pm Hi Ron,I carry a fresh water hose and a "black" black tank hose (kept separately in a 3mill plastic bag along with the Flush King [in its seperate bag] for the seperate dump valves. And I too carry a spray bottle of bleach mix for the Flush King.I have only ever used the campground dump which has a black tank dump station with its non-potable water supply AND a seperate Potable (fresh water) Station.My concern was the water connection at a Full Hookup campsite. Are there both Non-Potable AND a fresh water supplies at the Full Hook campsite like the ones provided at the campground dump?Seems there should be similar facilities at the individual full hook up campsite as there is at the campground dump station. The possible absence of a seperate Fresh Water supply is where my concern of cross contamination came into question.I'll take a look-see next time I'm up a Serrano in Big Bear. Thanks for responding to my inquiry.Heading to Myers RV center tomorrow for my Wave 6 propane quick connect. Next stop Zion with a River View site (in March) in Watchman Campground. My sister and my daughter will be joining me. It will be their first visit there. I'm sure they will enjoy it.Kent
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