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If the holding tank is full you can flush it just once. Further flushes will have to wait until the holding tank is again full. If the tank is empty- no.

If you have a way to refill the holding tank with water again, you can flush one more time for every time you refill it. When our water was going to be off for a time, I pre-filled the bathtub with water to use for this purpose.

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