Yes, good idea on the paper dishes. I don't do styrofoam so I won't mind the paper use (we can burn it in the campfire afterwards. I'm going to get the plastic containers to hold the dish water if we do run water and I can pour that in the toilet or water the camp fire when necessary.
I didn't realize grey water had a serious odor so I won't go letting it go. I was just thinking it might help the grass.
Mikeyxx wrote: I didn't realize grey water had a serious odor so I won't go letting it go. I was just thinking it might help the grass.
Probably IS good for the grass.
BUT, first search out some other threads on dumping of grey water, and then report back to us if it's toxic nuclear waste or if the world is a big, natural, organic nutrient cycle.
However, do not attempt to use any common sense as to whether you are dumping it in a busy area where other folks will be, or deep in the woods where it can lay around, be smelly a while, but cause no more harm than a big pile of bear poop.
Water is your biggest problem. Do a search here on the forum and you will get lots of tips, here are a few.
Never leave the water running while brushing teeth, draining dishes or lathering up.
Use paper plates, etc.
If you wash your pans in a plastic tub set in the sink, you can use the water to flush the toilet-saves space in the gray water tank.
If you have an outside shower like me, use it.
LP is fine for a few days.
If you buy an inverter (400watt = $30) you can watch TV without running the generator. Use the generator to charge your batteries each day.
Tim
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We can't make it past a day and a half without our gray tank filling, after using paper products and washing pots and pans and showers. We did buy a portable, wheeled gray tank container, around 25 gallons, for our last trip without sewer hook up. Very expensive, heavy when full, you can pull it and dump. Not sure if it would work in your situation. If you search on RV.net I think some people rigged up a sewer hose to a large bucket to dump their gray tank, a lot cheaper then a portable unit. Good Luck
How do you fill a grey tank in 1 1/2 days? My wife and I can't do that and we are in a campground with city water and taking nice long showers and doing dishes?
What campground are you in? I'm camping there too and know the lay of the land for the most part.
Even with full hookups DW and I don't drain grey/black tanks more than about every 4-5 days. So you ought to be fine on that end, particularly if you use other's facilities when possible and paper products. I guess I only question if renting a RV generator is possible. Locally, the only ones I can find are contractor gennies, and those are seriously on the loud side.
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I have camped for the Formula 1 race at Indy right across the street from the track. If that is where you are camping, they typically have "honey" wagons make the rounds for pumpouts and there are also porta potties available if you are good with that. If you take quick showers, you will not impact your gray tank that much. If they allow you dump gray water, it will not be an environmental disaster or issue, the black tank is a different story!!!
In terms of the atmoshphere, the Formula 1 race crowd was incredible. It was one huge party for the most part. It was also cool waking up to the sound of F1 engines being blipped first thing in the morning. Have fun!
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