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Default Heads on small boats

DSK wrote:

Duke wrote:

Thanks. Being new to this arena, where would one find an approved
holding tank ? Is this something that would only be available at a
marina ? Would it be possible to just dump it into your homes waste
system. I have a clean out trap at home with a 4inch pipe as the
opening. Seems like I could just unsrew and dump into there. Or
would that make no sense ?


We used a porta-potty for years on a small cruising boat and poured it
out into the toilet at home; we're hooked up to city sewer and it's no
problem.

Don't dump it into a system that flushes into a septic tank, though.
Unless you add a bacterial treatment to the porta-potty tank, rather
than sterilizing chemical mixed with perfume (which is what most people
do because it's cheaper), the stuff in your porta-potty will kill your
septic system DOA.


Thanks for mentioning that, Doug. It never
would've occurred to me.

DT