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On our recent trip to France, our pitch had a waste drain which we didn't use because we didn't know it was going to be there, so we had no pipe (all the pitches had them, no extra cost).

However, this wasn't exactly a drain but a plastic pipe which stuck vertically out of the ground by about 2 feet. If I did try to use it, the pipe would have been above the level of the drain point on my van, which suggests I would have had the waste water sitting in the pipe almost back to the sinks etc. With the heat we had, I dread to think what the smell would have been like...

Is this normal for waste drains elsewhere (never used one before)? We're going back to France for 2 weeks in August (different site) and I was planning on using the drain then, so I'm hoping that either it is a ground-level drain or I've missed something in the way you use them?

Unfortunately, I didn't think to look into this further before we left...every pitch had 2 of these pipes, so they must have been waste drains, no? And almost all of them were damaged in some way, I assumed by vans being reversed into them...

No-one on the pitches around us were using theirs...maybe it was just some sort of vent system? Seems unlikely on every pitch...

Very weird...

Hi

I came across this for the first time over Witsun at Chateau Galinee in Brittany. The draiage was a 6 inch pipe sticking out of the ground by 3-4 inches no use whatsoever.

Some of the pitches had had the pipe broken so that it was at ground level but I'm used to emptying the waste so I didn't use ours 

I assume that it was at La Croix du Vieux Pont? If so I am pretty sure they are vents, which as you say are often covered! When we were there last year there were some green plastic drain covers at ground level which we fed our waste hose into.

David

You could have asked someone

Quote: Originally posted by David Klyne on 02/7/2010

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I assume that it was at La Croix du Vieux Pont? If so I am pretty sure they are vents, which as you say are often covered! When we were there last year there were some green plastic drain covers at ground level which we fed our waste hose into.

David

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Ahh, maybe - as I said, we weren't trying to use them so I didn't look (or ask) for any other drain. But why so many vents - 2 on every pitch?

 

Quote: Originally posted by TonyC52 on 01/7/2010

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If they are pround of the ground by only a few inches then are they not below your outlet pipe height? Depending on where they are positioned you could either use your normal connector over them or a short flexible hose.

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