Penalty for dumping grey water

[beacher]

I would ask Mr. Ranger about fines or enforcement.

I regularly camp at State and National parks without hookups.

I have painstakingly filled my Aquatainers and carted them off when full.  However, while I did all this, I've camped next door to tent users and non-RVer's who wash their dishes, brush their teeth, took solar showers in a Paha shelter, and once even set up a tiny kiddy pool and simply let all their grey water soak into the same ground I was trying to keep as dry as possible.

The same Mr. Ranger, and camp hosts patrol their campsites as well as mine, but no consequences whatsoever.

[flyfisherman]

As already been posted, this gray water issue depends on the area and under who's auspices the railroad (campground) is being run! I've stayed (if for no more than a night) where sites were very close to one another and there you would think that common courtesy would prevail. My favorite campout places are the National Forest C/G's and usually sites there are large and spacious, sometimes can't even see your neighbors for the vegetation. And at most of these (western North Carolina mountains), there are no dumpsites. Even a couple of these C/G's that do have them where I stay from time to time, the only people using them are the hardsiders (that I've observed anyway). The tenters and us'in popupers that I've observed and know about, we help the vegetation out more by disposing of our dish water around them. I do believe if I were to head over to the dump station with my gray water container ... I'd be the only one!

Somehow I still consider myself a tent camper - in fact,  still carry the tent around with me and sometimes put it to use. And I like doing the dishes tent camping style ... the ole two dishpan method, at the picnic table, unless there are other facilities provided for doing the washing (or forced inside the PU because of the weather). And when I'm through, the Ivory bar soap laden dish water is looking for a needy bush! The rinse water soon to come after!

That's the way it is in my neck of the woods.


Fly

[Old Goat]

When I was growing up in south Florida duriing World War Twice, one of my "chores" was to pour dish and washing machine water around the citrus trees in our back yard. We had the best grapefruit and oranges and largest key limes in the neighbor hood, long before biodegradeable soaps were even thought of......

[LimeJeeeep]

When I was growing up in south Florida duriing World War Twice, one of my "chores" was to pour dish and washing machine water around the citrus trees in our back yard. We had the best grapefruit and oranges and largest key limes in the neighbor hood, long before biodegradeable soaps were even thought of......

and you didn,t have to clean  your hands after eating them :p JKG

little know fact  temple terrace fl got its name from temple oranges... :usflag:

[Old Goat]

and you didn,t have to clean  your hands after eating them :p JKG

little know fact  temple terrace fl got its name from temple oranges... :usflag:

Where be Temple Terrace? I've never heard of that one.

OG

[Tim5055]

Where be Temple Terrace? I've never heard of that one.

OG

It's a suburb of Tampa.  A little N/E

[LimeJeeeep]

here

http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=wl

punch in   temple terrace ,fl

[Old Goat]

OK, I found it... Florida is growing so fast these days which makes it very hard to keep up with all the new developments. I can remember when Tampa was not a large city and was well known for it's cigars like Tampa Nugget, Tampa Jewels and having the worst drinking water in Florida. I guess all that has changed.....