1000 Gallon Black Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

One plant, one class, and what a black wall does not change about the freight

This tank ships from Chowchilla, California at class 300, and the lane is the first thing worth understanding about it. Class 300 on a shipment 72 inches square by 65 inches tall is a straightforward LTL rate rather than a permitted load, so the tank arrives on a shared truck, on a lane that is short for anyone in the West and long for anyone east of the plains, and the geography does more to the total cost to get it there than anything on the specification does. What the black wall changes about that is nothing: the shipment is the same 72 by 65 inches, the empty weight is the same 190 pounds, and the class is the same 300 as the natural white tank in the same shell. What it changes is where the tank can live. A black wall is the one to specify when the tank stands outdoors permanently and light reaching the contents is the problem, and the trade you accept is that you read the level off a gauge instead of through the plastic. The site work is the same on either wall and it starts on the ground: a 72 inch circle, six feet across, carrying every pound of the 15,846 the sheet allows at a specific gravity rating of 1.9, through a rotationally molded floor that bears on the whole surface it touches and nothing else. Flat, level, cured, continuous, poured wider than the footprint, overflow routed away from the pad edge, to the framework in the concrete pad sizing guide. Band it while it is empty at 190 pounds, because the window in which wind can move a tank closes on the first fill. And prove the volume against the duty rather than the space: run 1000 gallons against your real draw and refill in the tank sizing calculator, then take the reserve you never draw and the freeboard a warming liquid needs from the tank sizing guide.

The black 1000 against the narrow 1000s

Two black tanks on this sheet hold 1000 gallons and they are opposite shapes. The 1831000C34 does it on a 60 inch base at 89 inches, two feet taller than this one and listed seventy pounds heavier at 260 pounds, which is the tank for a pad that is five feet wide and a fill point that is high. This one puts the same volume on a six foot circle at 65 inches and 190 pounds, and the reason to take it is the combination of a black wall with a top somebody can actually reach: five feet five inches means the 18 inch manway is opened from a step, not from a ladder leaned against the shell, and a low tank stays put in wind while it is empty. The 1831000N42 in that narrow shell is the heavy duty wall at 300 pounds if the duty wants more polyethylene rather than a lower silhouette. Either side of the capacity, the 850 gallon 1810000C34 is the slim one, 48 inches across and 117 inches tall, nine feet nine inches of tank for a footprint you could park a wheelbarrow on; the 1100 gallon 1710000C26 goes the other way at 86 by 55 inches and 160 pounds, wider and lower than anything else here, when a hundred extra gallons and a lower profile both matter and there is seven feet two inches of floor to give.

Torn between two rows? Call 866-418-1777 with the liquid and the ceiling height, or ask for a quote on both and compare the freight.

A lid at 65 inches, then the 2 inch bulkhead at the base

• The manway sets the routine: an 18 inch threaded vented manway 65 inches up, five feet five inches, is reachable from a single step, which means the tank gets opened, looked into and cleaned on a schedule instead of when something goes wrong. Keep it closed against dust, insects and birds, and never treat the vent as optional hardware.
• Vent discipline: 1000 gallons across a 72 inch circle is a shallow column that a decent pump can pull down fast, so the air coming in has to keep pace with the liquid going out. A blocked or undersized vent under pump suction will pull the wall inwards, and on a black tank you will not see the deformation from across the yard.
• Outlet: a 2 inch polypropylene female NPT bulkhead fitting at the base, as the sheet lists it. Thread it up once, correctly, with a sealant suited to the contents, and fit a union or flange downstream so future valve work never happens on the tank fitting.
• Pump layout: with 65 inches of shell there is a little over five feet of liquid over the outlet, which is modest suction head. Put the pump below the fitting on its own base with a short falling suction run, a cleanable strainer, and a low level float or run-dry cut-out that stops it with liquid still over the fitting.
• Limits: this sheet publishes no maximum operating temperature and no warranty term, so this page asserts none. The specific gravity rating of 1.9 caps density at 15,846 pounds of contents and is not a temperature rating and not a statement of chemical suitability. Name the liquid and the service temperature and we will get Snyder's written answer against the part number.

Everything else is the discipline any outdoor tank on a working pad wants. Flexible first joint off the bulkhead so thermal movement and pump starts do not load the fitting; the first valve on its own support off the pad, not hanging on the wall; a kerb or bollard between the outlet and anything that turns; freeze protection on the valve and the exposed pipe rather than on the body. A black tank hides a weep better than a white one, so look at the fitting, not for a stain on the concrete.

Outdoor tanks, sunlight and liquids that should not see it

A black 1000 gallon wall gets specified when the tank lives outside all year and daylight through a translucent shell would be a problem: liquid fertilizer and agricultural chemical storage on a farm pad, water held outdoors where a clear tank turns green in a season, a treatment chemical stock tank at a municipal or district yard, wash and rinse water on an exposed yard, dust control and construction water on a long job, and dosing or day-tank service beside a small skid. The two numbers to check any of that against are the specific gravity rating of 1.9, which the sheet turns into 15,846 pounds of allowed contents, and chemical compatibility with the wall and the 2 inch bulkhead, which is a conversation about the liquid by name rather than a figure on a sheet. Where the tank is one stage in a system that collects several streams, bands them by quality and re-uses them rather than a standalone vessel, the industrial water reuse tank topology article shows where a thousand gallon vessel belongs. Water stored against a fire is a different claim and a designed one, and the fire-water reservoir design guide says what makes it real.

Chowchilla to the yard at class 300, 190 pounds on a pallet

This part number ships from Chowchilla, California at class 300 as the sheet lists it, shipped 72 inches by 72 inches by 65 inches. At 190 pounds the weight is never the constraint; the six foot width is, because it is wider than a doorway and wider than a pallet, so plan a forklift, a telehandler or four sets of hands and a clear approach rather than assuming a tail lift will do. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. Set it straight onto the finished pad rather than beside it, because moving an empty tank costs a minute and moving a full one costs a day. Before the contents go in, fill it with clean water, hold it, and read the base, the pad edge and the bulkhead fitting while it is held. Then write the outlet size and material on the site file, because on a black tank in a row of black tanks that note is how the right gasket gets ordered a year from now. The first fill is the only cheap time to find a problem, so do it in daylight with someone watching the base.