10500 Gallon Vertical Liquid Storage Tank

Where a tall ten thousand goes

Choose this shell when the ground is tight and the sky is open: a strip along a building, a slot in a tank farm, a yard where every foot of pad is spoken for. Nearly seventeen feet of tank brings its own rules. The pad must be level, continuous and carry the whole 130 inch floor with nothing past the edge, and full of water that floor carries 87570 lb of liquid plus the tank; size it with our concrete pad sizing guide. The manway needs a fixed ladder or a platform. Overhead lines, roof edges and tree limbs all need checking before the truck comes. The work it does is the same as the rest of the class: ranch and dairy water, bulk fertilizer, process and reuse water, and a rural fire reserve, covered in the fire water reservoir design guide and the industrial water reuse topology guide. The complete buyers guide to this tank goes deeper, and the tank sizing calculator and tank sizing guide settle the volume first.

Openings and fittings

1. Outlet. A 3 inch polypropylene female NPT bulkhead fitting, factory installed low in the side wall, with a 2 inch reducer in it. Connect 2 inch as supplied, or remove the reducer for the full 3 inch port. Decide before you buy the valve, and support the valve and the first run of pipe so the fitting carries liquid, not hardware.
2. Manway. A 16 inch threaded vented manway on top, 202 inches up: fill point, vent and inspection opening. Reach it from a fixed ladder or a platform, never a leaning ladder.
3. Drawing. Norwesco's drawing for this tank, linked under Technical Drawing on this page, gives the outlet height and manway position for your layout.
4. Liquid. Water and most liquid fertilizers sit inside the 1.5 specific gravity rating. For heavier liquids Norwesco makes a 1.9 rated version of this shell, listed below. Tell us what is going in and we will confirm the material suits it.

Sizes nearby

Same shell in black, which keeps light and algae out of stored water: the 10500 gallon black vertical tank 47638B. Same shell rated for liquids up to 1.9 specific gravity: the 10500 gallon blue heavy duty vertical tank 47640 and the 10500 gallon black heavy duty vertical tank 47929. Five hundred gallons less on a wider, much shorter shell: the 10000 gallon black heavy duty vertical tank 43130B. Five hundred more on a wider, shorter shell: the 11000 gallon black heavy duty vertical tank 44011B. The colour swatches above the price switch between the versions of this tank.

Shipping and receiving

The tank ships as oversize freight (Norwesco's freight class is OVS) from Norwesco's Albertville, Alabama plant, 202 by 130 by 130 inches lying down on the truck and 2158 lb. It travels on an open trailer, so plan on a forklift, a loader with forks or a crew with straps, and room to stand a seventeen foot tank up beside its pad. The listed price is before freight; the freight cost estimator gives the lane cost to your ZIP. At the tailgate, check the part number against 47638 on the bill of lading, look over the shell for transit damage before you sign, and fill it with water the first time before it carries anything else.

Questions before you order? Call 866-418-1777.