Proper RV Dump Station Etiquette

Over the past years, we've seen several dump stations go by the wayside because people basically aren't cleaning up after themselves and are a little sloppy and we get regulations. And when they go to remodel, they don't put them back in and rest areas and so forth. So, a little bit of dump station etiquette is in order to make sure that we get through faster. We don't have pathogens. We don't contaminate the place. So when you pull into a dump station, the first thing is, before you ever do that, you wanna take and maintain or just kind of inspect your valves. These areas in here. If I have these gate valves which we're gonna pull open for the black and the gray water tank and there, the nuts aren't tight, the seals aren't good, the valves aren't good inside and I get drippings, I'm gonna get pathogens and contamination down here for the next person that's coming through. You also wanna make sure you wipe everything down. That's a good idea to take a bleach solution, a quarter of a cup in a gallon of water and spray the areas down that you're in here. Use the right equipment. Make sure you've got a good hose that connects to your dump valve here and connects into the dump station area with a good solid connection. I don't want anything spilling out all over the place. Make sure you use the right chemicals. I want, I wanna make sure I use the Thetford or the Dometic chemical that has the aerobic bacteria in it. That's gonna make sure that it actually goes in and eats the, uses the good bugs to eat the sewage inside of it. So then also when I dump it down into whatever sanitary district or station that's in there, that I'm not throwing chemicals that they don't want. We don't want the bleaches. We don't want the pine saw that kind of stuff. Things that people throw down there thinking it's gonna get rid of the smell. Use the proper chemicals. Also, when you get done dumping and you're gonna dump with a black water first, the gray water second, you'll clean up, but then move forward when you wanna fill your potable water if you have other people waiting to get up. And the last thing is, is you wanna go quickly, you know. We've done some videos on proper dumping and to really rinse out the blackwater tank you're gonna refill it two or three times. That's not something you wanna do when you've got a line of people waiting behind you. That's something you wanna do when you can get to a campsite that has a dump station or place that you have a lot of time or a lot of stations. You know, do a couple of those kinds of quick and move forward so other people can get in. So, but just by using a little bit of etiquette and some courtesy, we're gonna make a dumping a lot easier and a lot better for other people that are behind us.