Vault Toilets at Float Camps (2006)

[Steve King (Admin)]

Found this on a forum and thought I would share:

"Dave Baker <[e-mail]> wrote:

Good morning,

We just got back from a long weekend on the Eleven Point (Greer to Riverton). It was a first time on the river and we were impressed! We felt like we had the whole place to ourselves most of the weekend. It was almost like we stumbled onto a secret river since no one else was around. Caught a couple rainbows and managed to get a sack full of morel mushrooms.

One disappointment was with the float camps. I was under the impression these had vault toliets at each float camp. The three we stopped at looked like they might have had them once before, but it almost looked like they had been burned down and filled in. Even the maps at each camp showed a vault toliet. Does anyone know the story on these? It wasn't a big deal for me personally, but I had assured others in my party that vault toliets would be available when we stopped to camp.

Thanks,
Dave


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Last October, the only vault toilet facilities that I found were at greenbriar."
rich

[brians]

contact the USGS office in Doniphan. They told me in the fall that they were going to have new toilets installed by the beginning of the float season at the float camps. Obviously they have not completed the project. If they wait too long the boats will have a tough time getting all the supplies into the float camps as the water levels will be a little lower towards the end of the summer. Maybe a call will help inspire them to get the job finished.

[Steve King (Admin)]

I have contacted the Doniphan office and asked them to reply to this thread.

Steve
MSR Webmaster

[Dave]

Below is the e-mail I recieved from Tim Bond when I contacted his office back in April:

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bond
Sent: Mon, 10 April 2006 14:46:28
Subject: Re: Float camps on the Eleven Point

Thanks for the question Dave........We removed the toilets over the winter
to replace them with wilderness style type toilets. The recreation group
is replacing them this week. The older vault toilets were in poor
condition and needed to be replaced. The wilderness style toilets will be
cheaper and should withstand the local flood events better. I hope this
answers your question......tim

TIM BOND
District Ranger
Eleven Point Ranger District
Mark Twain National Forest
573-996-2153, [e-mail]
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