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Originally Posted by pokey
As a long time RV guy and his wife on a YouTube video that uses it said, someone had asked him the same question, what if something goes wrong outside? His reply, can you think of a time when something did go wrong while dumping outside? Not that it couldn't but if everything is secure from the RV to the dump station you should be good to go.
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Yes, I can!
I was in Denver through three deep freezes this winter and I saw several neighbors in the RV park with their sewer lines frozen up.
One of them, his sewer hose had burst from the freeze up, but he didn't find out until it thawed and dumped his black tank...half of it on the ground out of the cracked sewer line.
He, of course, was of the school of "always leave my tanks opened" crowd.
Glad he was a couple rows down wind from me!
I also had close call when, while coming down a mountain dirt road loaded with chatter bumps, unbeknownst to me, the black tank drain valve rattled open just enough to fill the small space between it and the outside drain cap, filling it with black tank stuff.
To make a long story short...at the local dump station, let's just say that I lost a brand new pair of Coleman sandals, but at least I was able to jump and miss the blunt of it!
My solution to that was an add-on Valterra drain valve that attaches like the hose does and is now a permanent piece of hardware on my trailer.
Anyway, there are lots of incidents out there, but most are too embarrassed to tell their story!
I do understand the idea of indoor control of these functions, however.