Emptying Grey Water (1 Viewer)

[Viennese]

I have a £5 collapsible plastic water container from Go Outdoors which fits nicely under my drain tap, and means I can carry it easily to the grey water disposal. Squashes flat for storage...

 

[mariner]

Not too sure where you get your information from but a lot of this is wrong wrong wrong, most roadside drains go straight to a surface water system, usually the local water course albeit via culverts, they do not go to foul sewers which go the sewage treatment plants

All house built in the last 10 years or more are not allowed to discharge top water, gutters roof drive etc to sewer, it must go to the surface system

Please please please do not follow this advice it is wrong, roadside drains are for [HI]clean surface water only[/HI], same applies to downpipes on most modern houses, roof water only

Clean????

In what way is it any cleaner than grey waste?



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[DavidG58]

Clean????

In what way is it any cleaner than grey waste?



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I don't really see why you would consider it dirty?? it will be 99.99% rain water, it will pick up a lot of grit off the road surface in heavy rain and it will move very small amounts of oil and other substances that have landed since the last rain, but in absolutely tiny proportions compared to the rainfall

A serious risk of pollution comes from road accidents, when the support services arrive, some will rescue any trapped / injured people, others will be protecting the drains with specialist devices to stop discharge to them if a noxious substance is involved, (usually from damaged lorries) or even if its a fire and foam might be used, that will be contained and pumped back into a recovery vehicle wherever possible

Grey water is much better than black water, but will contain soaps and other greases, much better to put on a grassy area rather than a surface water drain, but best of all in the right place

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[scotjimland]

Wow how to become public enemy number in a few words. Here are a few facts that people should understand. In a residential area all road drains go into the sewers, can’t see a problem with dumping grey water down them, might help flush out all that fat. Roads run by the highways agency have to go through a SUDS process to remove carbon pollutants, well apart from a few foods bits[HI] I don’t think my grey water is quite that bad.[/HI] Old country roads tend to use soakaways, definitely not a place to use. I would always use a site where available; I use a pipe where there isn’t a drive over. There are times however when you have [HI] no choice so the use of a suitable road drain is fine,[/HI] with the use of common sense and that includes closing the tap so as not to leave a snail trail.

Probably not.. but it is wrong and you shouldn't do it for all the reasons already given.. but just as important, if you are seen doing this by a member of the public.. .. how they perceive it.

Motorhomers already get enough bad press, some justified, some not.. but let's not add to it by dumping grey in a road drain.. the public don't know if it is grey or black so may assume it's sewage..

It is NEVER fine to use a road drain.. plan ahead and you won't need to.. don't be a fouler.

What the Highways Agency say
http://www.highways.gov.uk/our-road-network/environment/environmental-topics/drainage-and-water/

Drain markers ..
http://drainmarkers.co.uk/about/community-markers/

 

[haganap]

Morning

 

[Larrynwin]

once you get out of the site just crake the valve and leve a slippery trale of water no problem

Then some innocent motor cyclist goes arse over tit on contaminated water on the highway

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[DuxDeluxe]

Then some innocent motor cyclist goes arse over tit on contaminated water on the highway

I think Bill was being ironic..........:thumb:

 

[Larrynwin]

I think Bill was being ironic..........:thumb:

I always fall for Bills humorous posts oh:

 

[Puddleduck]

Here are a few facts that people should understand. In a residential area all road drains go into the sewers,

Not true in rural residential areas. We have NO mains drainage at all - septic tank for grey and black waste and soakaway for rain water. How do I know? I built this house and had to put the drains / soakaway in, including a new soakaway on the highway for anything that came off my land as the existing highway soakaway was already over capacity. I also have to clean out the soakaway and I would be very cross if I found grey waste in it. I've stopped five or six vans who were preparing to dump grey waste into "my" soakaway in the last 9 years. Had a bit of abuse over the issue as people really seem to believe that the soak away is connected to a main sewer. I do offer the use of my septic tank manhole - even though I have to pay for the septic tank to be emptied.

Old country roads tend to use soakaways, definitely not a place to use. I would always use a site where available; I use a pipe where there isn’t a drive over. There are times however when you have no choice so the use of a suitable road drain is fine, with the use of common sense and that includes closing the tap so as not to leave a snail trail.

How do you know if the road drain is suitable though? It's certainly not obvious. My sister lives in Oxford and the road drains there are also soak aways and not connected to a sewer as you would expect within the city.

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[DuxDeluxe]

I always fall for Bills humorous posts oh:

A bit more subtle than Hagger's blatant

Slightly more seriously, if we are going to go somewhere with limited facilities then I have a couple of Fiamma 23 litre (I think) tanks - one for fresh, one for grey. Small, but the grey one fits under the waste tap and then we can dispose according to the site owner's instructions. Otherwise we bring it home and dispose here through the sewer system in the same way as our washing up water

 

[daisy mae]

Our house the first one on an edge of village, all our water black grey whatever goes into one sewer pipe, not legal now, water down the road goes into the river that crosses the lane, and the powers that be want to build on flood land further down our lane, common sense has long gone, our council says it is the builders problem, not when they have left and we are left with a big problem, so Motor homers have to have a duty of care and not pollute others areas .

Margaret

 

[JJ]

All water be it black, grey, yellow or blue stays on this planet.

Millions and millions and millions of people around the world would die laughing if they were to learn of the raging arguments a teeny weeny number of rich people have about which drain their washing up and shower water should be poured down.

Which drains or soak aways do the millions of gallons of dog pee go down each year?

What about the tons of bird poo?

Relax folks... it's ok...

...maybe if you like worrying then worry about the thousands of tons of deadly, highly radio active nuclear waste we have lying about our world.

Now where the hell is the paper part of my driving licence?



JJ :Cool:

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[pneumatician]

Buckit and Chuckit Preferably on vegetation. We were asked to do this in France as apposed to "Wasting" it down the drains.

Procedure always followed on Scout Camps together with digging the "George", sh#t pit.