Live without sewers very long and you discover why they are an essential part of a developed society.

Ride aboard a golf cart with a member of our maintenance staff on an average day and find out just how common sewer blockages are within our park. So common in fact, that those of you that are quick with math could probably tell you just how much we pay every year in staff wages unblocking preventable sewer blockages. The list of common offending objects is well known, but some items would probably surprise you, to the point you’d wonder “what was somebody thinking?” trying to flush “that” down the toilet.

This is perhaps not a topic for the squeamish, so take the button back to the common topics if you think you can’t stomach this.

Basically you can’t flush anything down into our sewers that isn’t 100% human waste, or single-ply toilet paper. Period. “Flushable” wipes are lying to you! They aren’t for a system like ours. Feminine napkins, other related products, and diapers are not friendly to our system and fill jam up the works. Full grown mens underwear - also not going to “end” well.

So why?

Basically our sewer system flows with gravity towards the lake, and then needs to be pumped back up to the settling beds near Elim Lodge Road - the open fields near the road just south of the main access road especially. These are sensitive tile beds, and we don’t want anyone to drive on them. The pumps that power the lift of these perfumed potty product are only capable of chewing through human waste and single-ply toilet paper as they spin their way to move our magic mess. Anything that jams these pumps will bung up the system.

The “bottom line” is that ONLY 100% human waste and single-ply toilet paper are manageable for our system. So don’t, just don’t, try the rest of it. Keep a well-sealed bin near your potty and grab one of the stickie labels from the Office for it to remind yourself and your visitors of the potty process. If you loan our your site or rent it out, make sure your guests are aware, so that all avoid unnecessary embarrassment, and we start saving our maintenance staff for better things to do.