ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: RV Fresh Water Tank Question

Re: RV Fresh Water Tank Question

Lucy Chaplin Trumbull (elsie@calweb.com)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:58:10 -0700

> > From: Lucie A. Hess <lhess01@mail.coin.missouri.edu>
> > How does one keep the water in the (RV) Fresh water tanks clean and
> > Drinkable? I have been told to add a cup of white vinegar once in awhile
> > and nothing else.

Duncan Fletcher wrote:
>
> I periodically flush with a bleach solution.

Last time I went to use our Camelbaks, I noticed the tubes had black
mould in them (mmm-mmmm, my favorite).

We filled them with white vinegar overnight, but that didn't
seem to shift it. The we left a bleach solution (1:8 bleach:water)
in them for fifteen minutes at a time and swilled it around. Eventually,
we spent an amusing (not) evening working up and down the tubes
squishing them, to get the stuff detached (by then it probably
wasn't going to hurt us, but the thought of drinking water with
"stuff" floating in it wasn't terribly appealing.)

So just a warning - whatever that "stuff" is, I don't think just
white vinegar is going to shift it.

Perhaps talk to the RV places and ask them what they recommend?

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