Dirty Water Dribblers

[ManTheVan]

People chuck essential oils down the plug hole to make the waste tank not smell, they sling bleach in along with plug hole unblocker, I'm afraid it's just not water with a bit of fairy liquid any more
Not nuclear but not normal either

Not us! When we’re on a site, 9 times out of 10 the owner is happy to let us drain grey into the hedge or onto the grass. We use Ecover washing up liquid and never put anything noxious down the drain hole. Where there’s a proper grey disposal point then we store it and empty there. When at home we let it drain onto our own land and there is zero odour ever. I would never countenance filthying up someone else’s land or my own.

 

[nicholsong]

Close the valve?

I thought it was implicit that the valve was already closed when I said water in the pipe 'downstream of the valve'

 

[Puddleduck]

Our valve is not electrical but we also have a residue of water in the pipe and according to slope on the drain point there can be some waste left in the pipe downstram of the valve , which then drains on a camber or when rounding a corner.

I can see no answer to that problem.

Our self leveling system allows us to tilt the van to fully empty the tank and drain pipe

 

[U.Toadifact]

Whilst I never leave my grey waste tap open and use the disposal points when available, I can't get over excited about those who do dump it in discrete places. As said above many CL's ask you to dump it in the hedge bottom and I have never experienced any pongs.

Grey waste is nowhere near as offensive as the stuff leaking over the roads around docks which handle fish. Try following a fish container dribbling fishy water, or worse, cycling over a road down which such a vehicle has passed a couple of hours previously during hot weather.

 

[L' Hobo]

In most cases you could drink it and it would not do you any harm.

I'd love to see you drink a pint of it, from a random source, on the campsite. It's not just soapy water, it includes Bacteria etc that has been lurking in your grey water tank for, sometimes, years.

I don't mind it being poured over the roots of hedges, but not on a pitch where a child might playing after you leave,
Or my vehicle, as I follow it down the road because the person cannot be considerate enough to empty and flush their tank before closing the waste tap trapping clean water in there to flush the tank.

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[L' Hobo]

Close the valve?

or better still, drain it at the site drain, flush it with clean water, and then close the valve.

 

[Coolcats]

Has anyone noticed what the water companies are releasing ?

 

[L' Hobo]

I hear dribbling is an age related condition

It certainly appears to be and not just in the young & old!

 

[L' Hobo]

Has anyone noticed what the water companies are releasing ?

Just because they do wrong, does not mean that we have to!

 

[Guigsy]

Much of the public assume that these dribbles are sewerage water from the onboard toilet. Much like trains used to.

So try not to dribble, if only for motorhome public perception reasons.

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[Coolcats]

Just because they do wrong, does not mean that we have to!

Ok is it wrong though, whilst I am not advocating the practice is it for example unlawful.

 

[ctc]

Close the valve?

The valve is at the tank then a pipe to the side of the van.

 

[L' Hobo]

The valve is at the tank then a pipe to the side of the van.

Fit another tap to the end of the pipe, it's not expensive or rocket science?

 

[L' Hobo]

Ok is it wrong though, whilst I am not advocating the practice is it for example unlawful.

and they can be heavily fined IF enough people can be bothered enough to report them, which isn't hard in these days of mobile phones, adding a picture helps.

 

[Coolcats]

and they can be heavily fined IF enough people can be bothered enough to report them, which isn't hard in these days of mobile phones, adding a picture helps.

Fined by who? if the water companies act with impunity who is going to fine a MoHo for a dribble and who is going to prove it wasn't fresh water?

Socially totally unacceptable I know but is it actually breaking a law.

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[L' Hobo]

Fined by who? if the water companies act with impunity who is going to fine a MoHo for a dribble and who is going to prove it wasn't fresh water?

Socially totally unacceptable I know but is it actually breaking a law.

for the Water companies that you cited in post #37, yes!

For M/H's no! but would be if proved to have contributed to a serious accident, I think?

 

[dpsuk999]

I thought letting grey water dribble from under your van was perfectly OK I mean a prolific YouTuber (GJ) has publicly told how he has not installed a grey water tank in his PVC build and just let it flow out of his sink (when appropriate!!) Does that mean he will only wash up when parked over a grey waste disposal point? Or in a field??

Sadly it’s getting more and more prevalent that people see this action as being ok that motorhomes will continue to be banned from places

 

[Jim]

I can remember around 15 years ago writing an article about how years previously I had tested a one every second drip rate that emptied a grey tank between Roses and Paris. If I wrote it today I think I'd be cancelled

 

[Brains]

I can remember around 15 years ago writing an article about how years previously I had tested a one every second drip rate that emptied a grey tank between Roses and Paris. If I wrote it today I think I'd be cancelled

Where can you buy 'one drip every second' gray water dump valve ?

(Asking for a friend....)

 

[ontheroadagain]

Where can you buy 'one drip every second' gray water dump valve ?

Here.

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[SpeedyDux]

I guess it’s no different from water companies letting untreated sewage into rivers, some people just don’t give a shite

I discussed how to get rid of grey water with a scientist friend who worked for the Environment Agency. The upshot was that he said chucking a few bucketfuls in a hedgerow was probably environmentally OK.

 

[JJ]

I leave my drain tap open all the time I am on my land (QMJ)...

I also pour my wee from my "potty" into the hedges...

I also wee directly onto the ground around the trees (just like dogs do).

The solid matter, unpolluted by the nasty liquid stuff, gets disposed of at official locations about once a week or so.

It always makes me smile when I read of all the folk who get their knickers in a twist over "grey" water disposal.

In my experience it is only motorhomers who are bothered... no one else cares.


JJ

 

[Mikeco]

….especially others with orange-coloured vans

Oops

 

[Mikeco]

Spotting this at a popular park up in Chester, for 36 hours this guy just dribbled this yuk from under his van, a 10m water trail. Talk about give us all a bad name!

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Hi Jim I’m out of your reach in Spain but the last time that I stopped at Jasmin I went to empty the waste into my Fiamma roll thing that I use but realised that it had been open for the two days. Sorry

 

[nicholsong]

Our self leveling system allows us to tilt the van to fully empty the tank and drain pipe

Helen, I am too mean to buy a self-levelling system to drain the grey pipe for a few drops.

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[Mick and Ruth]

Was heading up the A49 near Warrington last week and clocked an Autotrail (I have one so always notice them) double parked in lay-by next to a wagon with its grey tank on the off side fully open and water spewing onto lay-by and the 49. The tank was obviously pretty full with the power of the water and amount already on the road. I was in a que of traffic as had been stopped at lights and everyone both sides of road couldn’t miss it.

 

[Minxy]

The valve is at the tank then a pipe to the side of the van.

Fit another tap to the end of the pipe, it's not expensive or rocket science?

I've made a bung for ours from some hose pipe fittings.

 

[eddie]

I can remember around 15 years ago writing an article about how years previously I had tested a one every second drip rate that emptied a grey tank between Roses and Paris. If I wrote it today I think I'd be cancelled

You can’t be cancelled

You ’do’ the cancelling!

 

[eddie]

No doubt with a record dry Winter we will soon be warned about potential water shortages and the inevitable hose pipe bans, so will all be encouraged to liberally slop used water around campsites and gardens.

 

[Wingingit#1]

We've NEVER at anytime been told that its ok to dump grey waste on a pitch or in a hedge.

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