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RVF 1K Club
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2019
- Messages
- 1,229
- Location
- Frostproof, Florida
- RV Year
- 2022
- RV Make
- Forest River (sold)
- RV Model
- Salem FSX 270RTK-X
- RV Length
- 32
- TOW/TOAD
- 2022 Ford Expedition Timberline
The park district CG we reserved a site at for 3 months this summer went under water Tuesday. It is on the Illinois River and will be closed for at least 3 or 4 weeks now. We had only been on our site for 3 days when this occurred. Due to covid-19 a county park 30 miles away will not open until after June 1. This central Illinois area does not have many choices for rigs our size.
A marina/boat yard across the river (Peoria) is trying to establish a small CG behind their main buildings. There are about 14 or 15 small concrete slabs spaced out with 30amp and water, no sewer. They do have a dump station on site because they have a honey-wagon they use to pump out large boats docked in the marina.
We have only been here 3 days/nights but there is a "learning curve" going on. About 5 of us migrated over from the flooded park district CG. Initially a couple RVs had issues with their 30amp hookups so the electrician was out two days in a row. The Harbor Master, who is not an experienced RVer, mentioned having the honey-wagon come around and pump us out. I told him I did not want this type of service due to my fear that they could collapse my holding tank or mess something up. Then they said they were going to auger down 6' and build a gray water septic next to our sites using corrugated pipe with gravel around it. I let it be know that even though I would only drop gray into such an outlet I suspected that future RVers would certainly try to get by with putting black water in the small short septic also, which would not be good. The next thing I knew they said they might go ahead and dig 12' deep, construct it the same way but then allow black and gray dumping. Since we are approximately 40 yards from the river and I didn't think much of this type of system for depositing 150 to 200 gallons of black and gray water every week I let him know that I would probably still be driving around to the dump station every week.
They haven't started digging these septic holes yet and I hope they don't. The other thing he wants to do is upgrade each site to 50amp, which I would welcome.
They are a very friendly helpful group here and I know they want to establish a nice little CG that will stay full during the season. There will be some growing pains but it is interesting to see things develop. At $300 a month the price is about right.
A marina/boat yard across the river (Peoria) is trying to establish a small CG behind their main buildings. There are about 14 or 15 small concrete slabs spaced out with 30amp and water, no sewer. They do have a dump station on site because they have a honey-wagon they use to pump out large boats docked in the marina.
We have only been here 3 days/nights but there is a "learning curve" going on. About 5 of us migrated over from the flooded park district CG. Initially a couple RVs had issues with their 30amp hookups so the electrician was out two days in a row. The Harbor Master, who is not an experienced RVer, mentioned having the honey-wagon come around and pump us out. I told him I did not want this type of service due to my fear that they could collapse my holding tank or mess something up. Then they said they were going to auger down 6' and build a gray water septic next to our sites using corrugated pipe with gravel around it. I let it be know that even though I would only drop gray into such an outlet I suspected that future RVers would certainly try to get by with putting black water in the small short septic also, which would not be good. The next thing I knew they said they might go ahead and dig 12' deep, construct it the same way but then allow black and gray dumping. Since we are approximately 40 yards from the river and I didn't think much of this type of system for depositing 150 to 200 gallons of black and gray water every week I let him know that I would probably still be driving around to the dump station every week.
They haven't started digging these septic holes yet and I hope they don't. The other thing he wants to do is upgrade each site to 50amp, which I would welcome.
They are a very friendly helpful group here and I know they want to establish a nice little CG that will stay full during the season. There will be some growing pains but it is interesting to see things develop. At $300 a month the price is about right.
