Black tank flush

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   I have a 2014 R-Pod 179.  Last night I dumped my black tank.  After it drained, I hooked a hose up to the black tank flush attachment and turn on the water.  I kept the drain tank hose hooked up and my valve open.  I have a clear elbow on my drain hose and noticed that water really wasn't draining while running the flush.  Just a week ago I did the same process and there was a significant amount of water that drained from the flush process.  Is there a chance that something is plugged or not working properly?  
When the flush process was running, I walked into my camper and noticed a strange "humming" noise in the bathroom area.  

I'm thinking of adding a bunch of water to the black tank and try draining it again to make sure nothing is plugged.  My indicator light shows that the tank is empty.

Any thoughts or ideas?  Thanks.

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tsherv Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24 Mar 2017 Online Status: Offline Posts: 35	Topic: Black tank flush Posted: 21 Aug 2017 at 9:48am
	I have a 2014 R-Pod 179. Last night I dumped my black tank. After it drained, I hooked a hose up to the black tank flush attachment and turn on the water. I kept the drain tank hose hooked up and my valve open. I have a clear elbow on my drain hose and noticed that water really wasn't draining while running the flush. Just a week ago I did the same process and there was a significant amount of water that drained from the flush process. Is there a chance that something is plugged or not working properly? When the flush process was running, I walked into my camper and noticed a strange "humming" noise in the bathroom area. I'm thinking of adding a bunch of water to the black tank and try draining it again to make sure nothing is plugged. My indicator light shows that the tank is empty. Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks.

mcarter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419	Posted: 21 Aug 2017 at 3:20pm
	It should drain as you fill with the backflush. If not, I agree first step is to fill black tank and drain again with backflush attached. Lets see what you see with clear elbow. The black tank can collect blockages. Especially if you are not using any chemical additives to assist in breakdown of waste. From your post I am thinking you have verified your backflush worked at one time.
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flat6s Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 21 Mar 2016 Location: Burlington, Ind Online Status: Offline Posts: 84	Posted: 21 Aug 2017 at 3:23pm
	Fill black tank full with water. I put hose right thru toilet valve as flush connection takes too long. watch down the toilet to see when you have reached full. Drain and repeat. I can dump in my field, so I put 1/2 tank full of water in, with a bag of ice, drive it down the country roads, swerving back and forth and a little hard brake. This cleans the tank out very well. Flush that and repeat. I will say this, when you think. your tank is fully drained, it is not. There is still several gallons in your tank that did not flush out, After I empty my black tank, I drive around the field, while swerving a bit and you would be surprised at how much comes out, after I have let is gravity drain fully.

GlueGuy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2654	Posted: 21 Aug 2017 at 5:23pm
	Hey Bubba!?! Who's that guy driving his trailer around like a crazy person out in the south 40?!?
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lostagain Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2595	Posted: 21 Aug 2017 at 9:27pm
	Hey flat6s, I hope you're not growing cantaloupes or spinach in your field. Does your neighbor onto whose property your field drains know of your field dumping? Their lettuce crop may not turn out so tasty. Your field doesn't drain into Wildcat creek and thence to the Wabash river does it? I guess a little E. Coli never bothered the folks in Lafayette. After all, beggars and lords the streets of London during medieval times didn't mind the dumping in their streets, as long as you avoided a direct hit. It just toughened them up, .... if they didn't die from cholera.
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flat6s Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 21 Mar 2016 Location: Burlington, Ind Online Status: Offline Posts: 84	Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 10:05am
	Hi ya all! I just knew my post was going to get comments. Listen, I always dump the load at the last Camoground we stay in and do a full rinse there as well. So what I am dumping in my field is rinse water with no solids. Understand there are close to fifty head of cattle in that field. Also, within three miles there are twenty three confined hog barns with almost five thousand piglets in each barn, producing one hundred and fifty thousand gallons of waste per year per barn. All of this waste routinely is spread on the open fields. Now my county has signed a contract to allow Lafayette indiana waste water plant to apply their treated waste on our fields as fertilizer. That amounts to millions of gallons of waste. Hard to think my twenty gallons of water will have an effect on anything...just sayin

john in idaho Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 04 Nov 2014 Location: Eagle Idaho Online Status: Offline Posts: 611	Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 12:05pm
	Somewhere I read a post on this subject. Someone put a whole bottle of Dawn down in the tank and drove around. Next thing they noticed was the HP car with lights and windshield wipers on. Apparently the Dawn had foamed and was coming out the roof vent pipe and blowing all over the road behind.

lostagain Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2595	Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 12:36pm
	Yes, live hog barn waste has become a very serious contamination issue and is spreading disease, not to mention causing algae blooms and oxygen depletion, in rivers and lakes all around the mid-west and south. Bovine waste is not as complicated since they are herbivores, but in high concentrations, it can also cause serious contamination problems. As for treated waste water from a sewage treatment plant, you can be pretty sure that the solid waste has been removed and the that water has been treated for infectious bacteria. Indeed, properly treated effluent can yield perfectly safe drinking water. ... once you get over the eeeuuuwww and ick factor. But you're right, the little bit of solid waste and the bacteria that is broken loose with the ice is probably a drop in the bucket when you consider all the other stuff you mentioned. I don't think I'll go fishing or swimming around Lafayette, IN.
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GlueGuy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2654	Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 3:15pm
	If you have Netflix, you should check out "SH*t Happens" (Season 1, Episode 3) from Doc Martin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doc_Martin_episodes#Series_1_.282004.29). Indeed it does.
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Kup-Pod Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 08 Jun 2017 Location: Guelph, Ontario Online Status: Offline Posts: 153	Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 9:10pm
	LOL, I love John-in-idaho's post... I can just see the foam blowing out the top of the TT as the driver calmly heads down the highway oblivious to what's going on behnd him!
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