Hello, I am new to the forum. Mr. Dragonfly and I LOVE our boat, we just love it, but it's probably not nearly as classy as what most folks have on this forum - it's more of a really big, glorified, modified party barge than one of those big sexy sleek houseboats. But we love it.

What I wonder, if any one here could give me some ideas, is a solution to our problem. There are a lot of wonderful lakes close to us, within two hours away, that have great marinas -with a boat dump station - but we live literally 5 minutes away from Wright Patman Lake. Which seems to be working as hard as possible to reduce it's services and amenities down to nothing - seriously - it only has one actual marina, and that marina doesn't have a dump station!!!

This is not really a houseboat lake - actually, it's not a houseboat lake at all . (it used to be, it had a real marina with houseboats, but there was a storm some years ago that tore it up and I guess they just shut it down. Boo.) But we would love to use it for overnights once in a while - except, with no dump station, we can't really use the potty because it fills up pretty quick. (I think it's 20 gallons?)

Is there any way we could legally and sanitarily modify a camper dump station? Or some other way we can empty our holding tank? It's so frustrating to have a lake less than 5 miles away and not really be able to use it other than just for afternoon. Well, we could, but if we had to "go" we'd be having to, uh, improvise, and I'm spoiled, I like having facilities on board!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!



edited to add: we are very much novices: there is no dumping of waste in any of the waters in Texas or Arkansas, which is where we are: and all I really know about our little privy is that it's similar to the kind of toilet you find on a camper, and that if there is a proper marina dump station, it sucks out the holding tank just fine and dandy. It uses intake water from the lake, and it goes into the holding tank. Thanks for your patience with my newbie-ness!
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