in order to get accurate information, why not contact them directly? . you will get 20 different answers on here and none may be right
i remember reading the 'clean waters Act' years ago as part of my work and technically it was an offence to put clean water into a polluted watercourse because 'it changed the chemical makeup of the stream'

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/before-you-visit/visit-with-care/camp-with-care

National Park rules

Go have a camp on the Murray River at any well known and frequently visited sites. I have only been to one but that was enough for me. I do take it that they will all be the same. Went at a busy time, place was crowded. People camped on the bank overlooking the water. Caravan/tent and 1 or 2 toilet tents, 1 for no1s, 1 for no2s. Spoke to a guy been doing it for years. What he does is dig a hole maybe 12 " deep placed a garbage bag in it and lined his seat with it so no no2s on his thunderbox. When he left, picked up his box and folded the plastic over the top of it covered with some dirt. "How it gets done" in his words. This all within meters of the edge of the top of the bank. Been done thousands of times over years.
I decided to check it out. Grabbed a spade and started to dig in spots. Gave up after 10 or so places. Struck plastic just under the surface, I think on all of them. So not only has the bank been contaminated with faeces, its wrapped in plastic. I grabbed a hole digger from the guy camping beside me and walk away from the river maybe 20m where he had dug some holes. 2 out of 3 holes I started brought up plastic. Got to an area 5m further, in bushes and managed 2 holes 700mm deep ,no plastic. Would have liked further but couldn't, but better than the "norm" for there.
This was at an area below Albury somewhere. Some say camping on the Murray is great. All I can think of is your camping on the top of a big s*** pit. Then I prefer camping at fresh clean water areas like places on the Upper Murray anyway.

Sarco Harris wrote:

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Other than areas where the toilets are periodically pumped out, I don't think that the dumping of chemical toilet wastes into them would be allowed.

Certainly many toilets in the high country and other areas have signage prohibiting the placing of chemical toilet wastes into the drop toilets.

 

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 This because too many people unnecessarily use unacceptable chemicals in their cassettes.

The addition of some sodium percarbonate will actually be beneficial to most toilets, both septic and long drop.

Cheers,

Peter

Sorry I meant my message to corndog but I'm technically challenged lol

Corndoggy wrote:

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Go have a camp on the Murray River at any well known and frequently visited sites. I have only been to one but that was enough for me. I do take it that they will all be the same. Went at a busy time, place was crowded. People camped on the bank overlooking the water. Caravan/tent and 1 or 2 toilet tents, 1 for no1s, 1 for no2s. Spoke to a guy been doing it for years. What he does is dig a hole maybe 12 " deep placed a garbage bag in it and lined his seat with it so no no2s on his thunderbox. When he left, picked up his box and folded the plastic over the top of it covered with some dirt. "How it gets done" in his words. This all within meters of the edge of the top of the bank. Been done thousands of times over years.
I decided to check it out. Grabbed a spade and started to dig in spots. Gave up after 10 or so places. Struck plastic just under the surface, I think on all of them. So not only has the bank been contaminated with faeces, its wrapped in plastic. I grabbed a hole digger from the guy camping beside me and walk away from the river maybe 20m where he had dug some holes. 2 out of 3 holes I started brought up plastic. Got to an area 5m further, in bushes and managed 2 holes 700mm deep ,no plastic. Would have liked further but couldn't, but better than the "norm" for there.
This was at an area below Albury somewhere. Some say camping on the Murray is great. All I can think of is your camping on the top of a big s*** pit. Then I prefer camping at fresh clean water areas like places on the Upper Murray anyway.

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 Pretty gross. I've seen similar in the high country.

 

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So, would it be fair to say most likely ok if 100 meters away from water or water courses such as creeks etc

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Yep.

The other legal acts use the same definition and somewhere I recall they specify a minimum depth of 150mm but I always dig down to at least 300mm and dig a new hole every few days - this when swag camping.

On the occasions I empty the caravan cassette in the bush (sodium percarbonate) I drive around the forest until I find a spot where a large tree once stood but has fallen some years past, the soil in this spot is loose and it's easy to dig a really deep hole. What helps as well is that I do not put loo paper into my toilet but rather into a plastic bag and burn every few days.

The other thing I have done for many years with latrine holes in the bush when I fill them in is to find two sticks each about 600mm long and push them into the soil of the filled-in hole to form a cross or letter 'X'. It is obvious nature didn't put them there so hopefully others will recognise it's best not to dig here. However I'm usually in places few others visit and I expect nature has returned my deposits to fertiliser in a couple of months. 

In the Simpson Desert.
When finished, this hole took 2 cassettes.


The other useful piece of info is that if you divert urine from the cassette and minimise the flushing water, it is possible to extend emptying from about 3-4 days to about 2 weeks.
We divert the urine to the grey water tank (which is easier to dispose of).
We have done this if we expect to be somewhere where emying the cassette is likely to be difficult for some reason.

Cheers,

Peter

depending on where I'm camping to how I dispose of my waste but in the bush toilet is always in a hole dug to last a few days with a cover of soil after each deposit, back in the 90's when I built my house the local Gov kept changing their policy on disposal of human waste via a toilet to tank, I decided to just use a bucket while they decided on what could and couldn't be done.

As it turned out, this was not up to them but a health inspector from a regional office, he said that I could have a bucket toilet but not a long drop and the waste had to be buried more than 300 deep but not deep enough that it would sit on the clay level.

I too have often come across less than desirable signs of waste in the free camping areas, this is one reason I much prefer to camp away from most other campers, the toilet at the Sawpit camp in Portland Vic can get so disgusting at times I would drive into town every morning.

Those camping on the foreshore and beaches north of Brisbane have caused many a problem for themselves. The standard long drop dug behind the first row of dunes has contaminated the water table resulting in, right now, closures of some camping areas due to outbreaks of Gastro etc. Inskip/Rainbow beach is a current example. A sand spear and pump for access to the freshwater bubble above the salt water under the sand has been responsible for many a ruined holiday over the last few years. Fecal contamination of the water table is now widespread. Its a cliche true but $hiting in your own nest seems to cover the situation. The situation described is not avoided by simply burying your Poo in a deep hole. Bushwalkers are increasingly required to use things like purpose built Poo tubes to carry their poo out of National Parks and the like. The notion of Self containment needs to get wider advertising. The requirement to be Porta Pottie equiped has been introduced in some NPs in Qld in an effort to stop the disgusting practice of leaving Poo everywhere.

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Some think their sh!t doesnt stink ! Adding plastic to it doesnt allow it to break down !! I never burry close to water ways . Due to people having no common sense ? I can see the authorities are going to ban it ! The big part is the amount of concentration . We have larger black tank . So we can be more selective where we burry . Not near any camping, water areas !!

Yeah, msg - I've been having a few words with the kangaroos about using the bush for toilet purposes, they pay no heed.

I agree; just stay in the cities and leave no trace.

But truthful.