Empty Serviced Pitches
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What about sites on a clay substrate? I’m sure not all are on good draining ground. We stopped on a service pitch earlier this month, where surface water was visible on the grass pitches. You certainly wouldn’t have wanted to add to it. Plus if I am not permitted to wash down my RV on site, why would it be OK to put gallons of unspecified waste water into the ground. We have soak aways at home, our ground is extremely well draining, but they take rain water not grey waste.
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Well said DD👍🏻
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Have you ever considered how much pollution is washed annually from our roads into our streams. Tons and tons of rubber, oil, diesel, petrol, litter and as well as detergent from millions of cars washed on the street.
Have you ever followed Government advice in times of drought and used grey water to water your garden?
Do you seriously believe that outfalls from septic tanks into streams is of drinking water quality?
The amount of grey waste discharged on a CL etc around the hedgerows etc is infinitesimal in the great scheme of things.
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Have you ever considered how much pollution is washed annually from our roads into our streams. Tons and tons of rubber, oil, diesel, petrol, litter and as well as detergent from millions of cars washed on the street.
MA where road drains empty in water courses they are fitted with traps to filter the run off
peedee
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I can fully understand Club Sites not allowing grey water to be put onto plants, hedgerows, but it’s still allowed (always ask) on a good deal of CLs. They don’t get the usage like Club Sites do (if busy it might not be allowed on CL either).
Our grey water is simply shower and wash water. We don’t allow washing up water into our MH tanks, but use a wash bowl for anything greasy or sticky, this goes down grey waste drain on site. I can assure folks that shower water, with a tiny bit of soap in it doesn’t hurt plants, it’s what we use at home combined with rainwater. Numerous times we have been told it’s ok to put shower water onto plants in CLs, particularly during periods of little rain.😁
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Not sure that I would be happy to arrive on a pitch that somebody had vacated just 2 hours earlier and had dumped their grey waste onto. Especially when you considered the size of grey waste tanks in modern MH's, mine has a 100ltr capacity.
It really isn't a chore to wheel a Wastemaster to one of the many service points provided on club sites or to use the MH service point when you leave a site. Just have some consideration for the next person to use that pitch.
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We always dispose of washing up water at the grey waste point rather than allowing it down into the waste tank. If the service point is too far away I get my Fiamma waste container out and fill that with the washing up water and empty when it gets full. The fact that you can use shower gel on your skin suggests that it is pretty benign. Might also discourage greenfly if you put it on your plants!
David
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Just to clarify, we don’t dump our grey tank onto a pitch, or pitching area. We use a bucket daily (the exercise is good for us, and we tend to do it as we go out almost daily). Sometimes we use a pipe into hedge bottom If we don’t intend moving for a couple of days. There’s only a bit of shower gel and handwash in our grey waste, so it doesn’t smell nasty, as it doesn’t sit in the tank at all. It’s just our personal choice of how to do things, if it’s ok to dump grey waste this way. I fully agree about not dumping on the pitching areas themselves. Doing this means we aren’t relying upon sites that have a drive over tank as well, so we have a much wider choice of sites. It’s a win win for us.😁
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Just for clarity, soapy water does not discourage or deter greenfly, it kills them. Unfortunately it also kill those other more beneficial insects and ‘mini beasties’ too if it comes into contact with them.
We should put all our polluted water in the correct drains and hope that the water companies deal with the pollutants correctly. We live in hope!0 -
Not all rural campsites have mains drainage piped into sewage works.
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Not all rural communities have mains drainage piped into sewage works.
In fact, that could be used as a good basis for defining "rural".
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Not always. We live on a main road. At the end of our service road the run off from the road goes into a gutter drains and straight into a ditch which feeds into a water course. I know there is nothing else from the drain to the ditch from when they investigated the water not flowing away.
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the club like the extra revenue for service pitches
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