I apologize for this post. I don't mean to sound negative, and I very much want to get past my germophobic issues here. So please read it in light of a germophobe, not trying to bash the experience. Any advice greatly appreciated.
As I begin my Rving career, the one thing that's giving me pause is the black water issue. I'm told you can catch stomach viruses just from being close to a person's vomit and/or diarrhea; and it seems that when you open the lid on public dump sites you're potentially catching a whiff of thousands of people's every most nasty stuff -- including viruses.
And it's not just the pipe. If you google 'dump' or 'black water' and 'fail' you'll get tons of videos of hoses exploding out of pipes, sewage spilling out of the RV, etc. -- all over the dump site. So it seems that walking anywhere near the site is potentially picking up all kinds of nasty stuff on your shoes. It's like -- having to deal with my own family's sewage is one thing (hopefully they are not sick) -- but who knows what you're dealing with around these sites?
Then there's the whole cross contamination thing. I'm thinking the hoses, clear elbow, etc. all go in a bin that gets soaked in bleach water at the end of the trip; and gloves being a must.
Anyway, all this to say -- am I over thinking this and you all never get sick from being around these dump stations or is it a real concern?
Thanks, and apologies again.
As I begin my Rving career, the one thing that's giving me pause is the black water issue. I'm told you can catch stomach viruses just from being close to a person's vomit and/or diarrhea; and it seems that when you open the lid on public dump sites you're potentially catching a whiff of thousands of people's every most nasty stuff -- including viruses.
And it's not just the pipe. If you google 'dump' or 'black water' and 'fail' you'll get tons of videos of hoses exploding out of pipes, sewage spilling out of the RV, etc. -- all over the dump site. So it seems that walking anywhere near the site is potentially picking up all kinds of nasty stuff on your shoes. It's like -- having to deal with my own family's sewage is one thing (hopefully they are not sick) -- but who knows what you're dealing with around these sites?
Then there's the whole cross contamination thing. I'm thinking the hoses, clear elbow, etc. all go in a bin that gets soaked in bleach water at the end of the trip; and gloves being a must.
Anyway, all this to say -- am I over thinking this and you all never get sick from being around these dump stations or is it a real concern?
Thanks, and apologies again.