In praise of BLACK tanks (1 Viewer)

[eddie]

I find generally one meets and chats to a better class of person whilst visiting albeit very occasionally, black tank evacuation station.

More riff raff types at a 'Elsan' dump

 

[funflair]

Doesn’t sound good when you put it like that but the reality is quite different, waste products go into a sealed tank with charcoal filter on the vent and then a pipe sends it straights into the sewer system, just like home really

EDIT I should added, if you are really posh you just drive over and line up with your “dump camera” then push the button to open the valve, no need to even get out and discuss the finer points of -/———,

 

[Gellyneck]

I find generally one meets and chats to a better class of person whilst visiting albeit very occasionally, black tank evacuation station.

More riff raff types at a 'Elsan' dump

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh. Not sure about that.

Just an opportunity for more sh1te to get splurged!

 

[AndyVW]

This is an interesting thread, clearly there are some misconceptions with emptying black tanks. If I may. What comes out of any black of mine is liquid only. This is the same organic compound found in septic tanks, It is almost odour free. The grey is then used to rinse flush the pipe, The grey is the smell not the black.
The point all of this on average it’s once a fortnight to empty, So far less risk to one’s health verse the walk of shame every other day. With a chocolate box in there hands.

 

[Basildog]

On our camper we only have 205l black tank, so I’ll bow out of this Willy waving competition

But on the subject I have noticed many many people carrying a little plastic pot, which they slide out the side of their van and all walk (at different times admittedly) to the toilet block, faff about, then, traipse back to their van and slide the little plastic pot back into the side of the van.

Any ideas?

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[nicholsong]

Do they not just park over a gutter drain in a street in the centre of town, open the valve and head off for a coffee and bun whilst it's doing so? What's the problem?

Not MH waste but similarly related.

I was at a harbour cafe in Greece. Honeywagon pulled up, stuck a pipe in sewer. I assumed some sort of blockage needed clearing. Then I realised truck engine was stopped, so no pumping out. Then I noticed driver going to edge of quay to check that truck was emptying via sewer into harbour OK.

That island has since installed a sewage system and treatment plant.

 

[Gellyneck]

Not MH waste but similarly related.

I was at a harbour cafe in Greece. Honeywagon pulled up, stuck a pipe in sewer. I assumed some sort of blockage needed clearing. Then I realised truck engine was stopped, so no pumping out. Then I noticed driver going to edge of quay to check that truck was emptying via sewer into harbour OK.

That island has since installed a sewage system and treatment plant.

A bit of a different slant on coffee and cake!

 

[Backlanes]

The other day at an aire in Spain I witnessed a medium sized A-class with a D on the back dump it’s black and grey waste from beneath its rear end into a grate which I had until then believed was only for grey waste, there being a black waste point just to the side. Is this the intended purpose of these grates? If so I’ll be more circumspect where I put my feet in future.

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

The other day at an aire in Spain I witnessed a medium sized A-class with a D on the back dump it’s black and grey waste from beneath its rear end into a grate which I had until then believed was only for grey waste, there being a black waste point just to the side. Is this the intended purpose of these grates? If so I’ll be more circumspect where I put my feet in future.

Have found that in Europe the drive over.grates are for black and grey, it will normally say if no black dump.

 

[AndyVW]

Since 1991 legislation in EU waste water is exactly that All waste water no matter the colour, So it must All go of to a treatment plant for processing !

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[jongood]

We became blacktank owners just under 4 years ago, we find we can easily do 10 days but if an easy opportunity comes up after 7 we will use it. The only place we struggled was Montenegro but otherwise always find a proper place to dump it when we need to, a surprising number of the flot bleu s are low enough to put the pipe in. I never dump without the pipe and usually make less mess than the people with only grey.


It also dumps pretty fast. The marina aire at Gibraltar usually has a queue which we had been in for a good half hour, some of the casette carriers were jumping the queue, ok no problem with that, but when I was ready I asked them to wait 2 minutes, one of them kept on bending down getting his cassette ready, I asked him twice, no answer so I pulled the handle, then he moved

 

[funflair]

The other day at an aire in Spain I witnessed a medium sized A-class with a D on the back dump it’s black and grey waste from beneath its rear end into a grate which I had until then believed was only for grey waste, there being a black waste point just to the side. Is this the intended purpose of these grates? If so I’ll be more circumspect where I put my feet in future.

Sounds correct to me, black first then grey and you shouldn’t know they had been there, ultimately much better for the downstream treatment plant as black tank users don’t flush wet wipes and the likes (not macerating systems anyway).