Gray Water Blues

So what are you suppose to do with your gray water? How do you wash dishes? Right now, the only way you can do that in a Florida campground, is to do it illegally! The state simply does not allow for the use of small portable gray water containers, and more over, will issue a citation if your caught using one.

This is an ironic (or moronic) item that is on the State of Florida's offical law books. There has been a grass root's effort to get this law changed, which has been spear headed by some of the folk's over at 'Pop-up Times' magazine (and website).

The good news here is, that the State of Florida is closing in on a rules change that will allow for the use of portable gray water containers. While the new rule has not been issued yet, it should look something like this... It must be specifically designed and sold for holding and transporting wastewater, and must have a tight-capping lid and watertight connections that under normal use will not leak or spill.

Oddly enough, the powers that be are enforcing these rules, but only in specific parks. Though it should be the same everywhere, some parks such as the campground at Disney are requesting campers to utilize leak proof gray water containers in order to do the obvious, prevent the stuff from being spilled or leaked onto the ground. Leave it to a commercial enterprise to do things the logical way.

When this issue get's resolved by the Florida legislature, we'll post an update to this story! Until then, Florida campers will just have to wash their dishes after it get's dark out!