Splash & Dash

[MichaelT]

I really don’t understand why the facilities to dump a cassette are charging so much , typically see £5 quoted, if it discharges to a sewer they have zero costs , even if to a sess pit, that would be minimum 5m3 and cost about £300 to empty. Even if every user put 50 litres of toilet waste down their drain, chose that volume for easier maths , it would take 100 customers to fill it, £3 each

I suspect the owner only sees the £300 bill and doesn’t do the maths

Rubbish I can see being an issue as they have to pay for that as well, I am often horrified at how much rubbish motorhomers generate at rallies, a lot of which coujd be taken home , unless going on somewhere else of course

But question to OP, it sounds like you intend to wild camp what did you plan on doing with toilet waste ? We park off sites but always use a site every third night to refresh everything

We just held a rally and had to pay to empty the cess pit. We had 70 units mostly for 3 nights and half filled a 2000 gallon tank according to the man that emptied it and it cost £90 cash.

Then there's water, at a minimum each unit probably uses 40l a day on average, some mote a few less so whatever that costs, then sewerage is charged at 90% of water used even though it went in the hedges.

Abroad it's not unusual to pay 4 or 5 euro for a service visit so a fiver here given the higher costs is probably on par and yes I know a lot are free but in Spain last winter we were happy to pay every 3 or 4 days if we were staying where there were no services.

 

[MichaelT]

cyberyacht have you splashed and dashed now?

 

[DavidG58]

Then there's water, at a minimum each unit probably uses 40l a day on average, some mote a few less so whatever that costs, then sewerage is charged at 90% of water used even though it went in the hedges.

That’s a fair point but combined cost will about £2 / m3 so total cost should be no more than £30 for all of you

 

[MichaelT]

That’s a fair point but combined cost will about £2 / m3 so total cost should be no more than £30 for all of you

Not sure how it's worked out but we pay over £50 a month at home for 2 of us so that's about £1.80 a day so 70 units at even £1 a day is £210 over 3 days but I'm sure it's less.

 

[cyberyacht]

cyberyacht have you splashed and dashed now?

Splashed but not dashed yet. On a CL a few miles out from Chester

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[Coastal Cruiser.]

Some of the places I have seen it could be called splash and pebbledash I cannot believe that people emptying a small cassette could miss a larger hole in the ground and what is more unbelievable is they cannot wash down the area with the hose next to it
Was at Polch used the drive over drain but after washing that down I also washed down around the cassette emptying bit as some animals had not botherednot the first time either

 

[nicholsong]

Splashed but not dashed yet. On a CL a few miles out from Chester

So maybe emptied when you arrived, but fortunately did not encounter the attitude that Pausim got , post #14.

I would have thought that most small campsites would welcome the extra income from a 'splash and dash' for a few quid in the middle of the day. They have to provide no other services, it is all self-service.