Where do you dump your dirty water change water?

[Nano427]

As the title states, I’m curious as to where you dump your dirty water change water?

 

[Idoc]

If using my Python, the water goes down the drain...otherwise if using a vacuum to remove into a 5g bucket, then it goes into the toilet.

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Toilet. I'm sure a lot of people dump down the sink. My tank is closest to my kitchen. I just worry about what saltwater would do to my garbage disposal

 

[Timrpn]

When i was young, i used to pour it outside on the lawn, but we later discovered that it kills grass and now moss grows there in the spot. So now that i am older and live in my own house, it just goes down the drain.

 

[alton]

Front yard to water my St. Augustine grass

 

[Crabs McJones]

Toilet here.

 

[Salty Lemon]

Toilet. I'm sure a lot of people dump down the sink. My tank is closest to my kitchen. I just worry about what saltwater would do to my garbage disposal

Wow! It has never occurred to me that it may affect the garbage is disposal. Now I'm going to be wondering. I use my python and the dirty water goes down my kitchen drain. Then I clean the dickens out of my sink -- bleach is involved.

 

[tehmadreefer]

Down the driveway into the road, since I'm on a hill.

 

[CubsFan]

Usually in my yard. Sometimes I send it down my tub. Sometimes I pour it on the manzanita further out in my yard, but it still lives.

 

[Auquanut]

Through the python into the deepsink drain. Once I set up the AWC, it will go down a floor drain.

 

[JasReef]

My auto water change disposes it out in the backyard under my deck.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Python to the bathtub for me

 

[Bob Weigant]

I roll my bucket right down the driveway and splash right into the street

 

[sde1500]

AWC piped directly into the plumbing to the septic.

 

[Crabs McJones]

To those that dump it in the yard, does your grass continue to grow? I ask as I did this a while back when I was in a rush (tank is by the front door) and a small Bush doesnt seem to be doing good. Wasnt sure if it was tied to this or not and were tearing the Bush out next year and planting something else in its place, but curious.

 

[Podworski08]

On my back patio. It kills all the weeds in the cracks of the brick and keeps them away.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Toilet here too. Dont dump saltwater into a septic system or you will have issues in the future.

 

[AdamB]

I use python hose and pump it out in the gravel part of drive since I have a septic tank

 

[TankYou]

I know it’s a bad idea but it’s so dang convenient, I have 4 tanks running in the basement, so I drain them into the sump pit. I do trigger the sump to run after I put salt water in it, but I’m sure I will pay for it in salt water corrosion on the sump motor in a few years, beats lugging the water upstairs though. I have a septic system as well, so no chance of me putting the water down the drain anyways. The sump discharges far away from the house and eventually runs into a creek.

 

[bar|none]

Yeah I have a drain field, so it can't go down the drain.