bmet2000
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I had a question about the fresh water tank. We filled it before we left home last time, but the DW didn't like the way the camp water tasted. I didn't know how to get water out of our fresh tank without unhooking the 'city' water hose. Is there another way without unhooking the incoming water hose? I don't have a diagram of how the water from the fresh tank and the incoming 'city' hose connect internally. I thought I could just run the water pump, but I wasn't sure, so I disconnected the hose and ran the pump to get to our fresh water. (It made our herbal tea so much more tasty!)
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Chuck_S
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Turn the hydrant off. Turn the water pump on.
We had a very nice separate filtered freshwater tap at the kitchen sink in our Coleman Bayside popup. I've been going to fit one to the Roo for 3 seasons but have never gotten around to tapping into the cold water line there. It's easy enough but we have a filter on the complete water system that has made this less of a requirement.
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skipnchar
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My advice would be to purchase a whole house filter, either that mounts as part of your trailers water system or simply put an in-line filter between the campsite water supply and your hose.
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Godsey97
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I rarely tow water. If I am headed to an electic only site, I will fill up the fresh water tank. Since we typically use campground fresh water, I purchased an in-line water filter that is placed between the tap and the fresh water hose. Like Chuck said, turn off the spigot. If there is no supply, you turn on the water pump and it has no choice but to pull from your fresh water tank. I also spray the tap down with clorox/water mixture before I hook anything to it, you just never know how "clean" the previous camper was when dealing with the water tap.
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chilipyro
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The pump won't pump if there is sufficient pressure in the line, so it will not pull water from the fresh tank as long as there is pressure coming into the lines from the city water connection. As Chuck said, just turning off the city tap should allow you to use the pump to pull from the fresh tank.
By the way, I learned the hard way recently that you should taste the camp water before filling your fresh tanks with it - or use an in-line filter on the fill hose always. There is a rusty taste in our fresh tanks now (from Fundy NP in New Brunswick) that has persisted through two emptyings and refillings. We have a tap filter (one of those Brita filters where you switch a lever to get filtered water out of the tap) and didn't notice that the camp water tasted bad until we filled the fresh tanks for the next leg of our journey.
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The power of suggestion works... sometimes.
My DW is a water snob, so every new campground we camp at, I always say the water tastes better than the last one. 
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bmet2000 wrote:I had a question about the fresh water tank. We filled it before we left home last time, but the DW didn't like the way the camp water tasted. I didn't know how to get water out of our fresh tank without unhooking the 'city' water hose. Is there another way without unhooking the incoming water hose? I don't have a diagram of how the water from the fresh tank and the incoming 'city' hose connect internally. I thought I could just run the water pump, but I wasn't sure, so I disconnected the hose and ran the pump to get to our fresh water. (It made our herbal tea so much more tasty!)
It sounds like the question is how tdrain the fresh water tank? My 23SS has a drain at the tank just like a low point drain. You just pull up the handle and it drains. Might want to check that.
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Canadian Karebear
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Godsey97 wrote:I rarely tow water. If I am headed to an electic only site, I will fill up the fresh water tank. Since we typically use campground fresh water, I purchased an in-line water filter that is placed between the tap and the fresh water hose. Like Chuck said, turn off the spigot. If there is no supply, you turn on the water pump and it has no choice but to pull from your fresh water tank. I also spray the tap down with clorox/water mixture before I hook anything to it, you just never know how "clean" the previous camper was when dealing with the water tap.
And to think I used to drink from the garden hose when I was a kid.... my things have changed!
I would go with the in-line water filter too tho, good idea. I have one too, and it works really well, just the comfort zone knowing you are drinking good water is enough for me.
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