{"id":3453,"date":"2017-03-26T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/main\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2022-11-16T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:01:55","slug":"rv-sanitation-no-sewer-rats-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/blog\/rv-sanitation-no-sewer-rats-flies","title":{"rendered":"How To Keep Your RV Holding Tanks Free Of Sewer Rats and Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p>Sewer rats living in your RV\u2019s gray water tank? Sewer flies breeding in your <a href=\"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/blog\/plugged-tank-solutions\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">black water tank<\/a>? It may sound like an urban legend or the stuff of nightmares, but unfortunately, these things can happen if you\u2019re not careful. So, what do you do to maintain RV sanitation?<\/p>\n<p>As the name implies, sewer flies (or <a href=\"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/blog\/how-to-avoid-sewer-flies-in-your-rv-holding-tanks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">drain flies<\/a>) live in the sewer system, so they can have a clear path to your RV if you neglect to <a href=\"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/blog\/keep-grey-water-tank-closed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">keep your gray water tank closed<\/a> while in an RV park.<\/p>\n<p>In this video with <a href=\"http:\/\/rvtravel.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">RV Travel<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JAVLIT_1b4E?list=PLhuh9_kwPARy6it6Gooox12lB7WedHvk_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Chuck Woodbury<\/a>, you\u2019ll hear about a couple that heard thumping noises in the middle of the night after making this common RV waste management mistake. It turned out that the couple wasn\u2019t alone in their RV &#8212; a sewer rat was living with them! You\u2019ll also watch Chuck tell the story of a woman who watched in horror as sewer flies emerged from her toilet after making the same mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be left vulnerable: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JAVLIT_1b4E?list=PLhuh9_kwPARy6it6Gooox12lB7WedHvk_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">watch our video<\/a> to learn how to keep critters out of your holding tank sewage system and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dumperdan10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">subscribe to Drain Master&#8217;s Youtube channel<\/a> for even more RV living tips!<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sewer rats living in your RV\u2019s gray water tank? Sewer flies breeding in your black water tank? It may sound like an urban legend or the stuff of nightmares, but unfortunately, these things can happen if you\u2019re not careful. So, what do you do to maintain RV sanitation? As the name implies, sewer flies (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Sewer rats living in your RV\u2019s gray water tank? Sewer flies breeding in your <a href=\"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/main\/2012\/04\/05\/plugged-tank-solutions\/\">black water tank<\/a>\u00a0? It may sound like an urban legend or the stuff of nightmares, but unfortunately, these things can happen if you\u2019re not careful. So, what do you do to maintain RV sanitation?\n\nAs the name implies, sewer flies (or <a href=\"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/main\/2012\/09\/12\/how-to-avoid-sewer-flies-in-your-rv-holding-tanks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drain flies<\/a>) live in the sewer system, so they can have a clear path to your RV if you neglect to <a href=\"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/main\/2017\/03\/11\/keep-grey-water-tank-closed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep your gray water tank closed<\/a> while in an RV park.\n\nIn this video with <a href=\"http:\/\/rvtravel.com\/\">RV Travel<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JAVLIT_1b4E?list=PLhuh9_kwPARy6it6Gooox12lB7WedHvk_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chuck Woodbury<\/a>, you\u2019ll hear about a couple that heard thumping noises in the middle of the night after making this common RV waste management mistake. It turned out that the couple wasn\u2019t alone in their RV -- a sewer rat was living with them! You\u2019ll also watch Chuck tell the story of a woman who watched in horror as sewer flies emerged from her toilet after making the same mistake.\n\nDon\u2019t be left vulnerable: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JAVLIT_1b4E?list=PLhuh9_kwPARy6it6Gooox12lB7WedHvk_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watch our video<\/a> to learn how to keep critters out of your holding tank sewage system and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dumperdan10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe to Drain Master's Youtube channel<\/a> for even more RV living tips!","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[102,157,103,85,50,126,158],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rv","tag-black-tank","tag-black-water","tag-black-water-holding-tank","tag-gray-water","tag-holding-tank","tag-sewer-flies","tag-sewer-rats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drainmaster.com\/rv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}