The 13000 Gallon Vertical Liquid Storage Tank from Norwesco is a large stationary above-ground reservoir built for bulk water duty. It ships LTL from Albertville, Alabama, quoted live to your ZIP. At 198 inches tall on a 144-inch diameter footprint, this polyethylene vertical tank holds 13,000 gallons in a single upright cylinder, sized for fire-water reserves, irrigation supply, bulk process water, and rainwater and reuse storage on farms, ranches, and remote industrial sites.
Will this Norwesco vertical tank work for your site?
This is a vertical storage tank, so it stands tall and uses a compact 144-inch diameter footprint rather than spreading wide. Plan your pad to that 144-inch circle, which is roughly 113 square feet of bearing area. Full of water, the tank and contents weigh about 108,420 lb, and at the tank's 1.5 specific gravity rating it can carry up to 162,630 lb of contents at maximum density. Spread across the footprint, full water alone puts close to 960 lb per square foot onto your pad, so the foundation is the part of this project that needs the most engineering attention. Walk through the load math with our concrete pad sizing guide built on the ACI 360R-10 framework, and confirm your volume needs with the Tank Sizing Calculator and Tank Sizing Guide before you commit.
Specs and the spec to watch
Capacity is 13,000 gallons, height 198 inches, diameter 144 inches, polyethylene construction, with a 1.5 specific gravity rating. That 1.5 rating is the number to read carefully, and on a water tank it works in your favor: the wall is built to handle liquids up to 1.5 times the density of water, which covers plain water with real headroom and reaches into heavier water-treatment and some denser process liquids without forcing you up to a heavier-walled tank. Treat 1.5 as the ceiling, not a target to push past. For the full geometry and the outlet, fill, vent, and manway layout, see the technical drawing on this page, and size your vent and overflow to your actual fill and draw rate so the tank breathes freely and never goes under pressure or vacuum. If this tank is going into a private fire-protection stack, our fire-water reservoir design guide covers NFPA 22 sizing discipline and cold-climate freeze protection. For mixed grey-water, rainwater, and HVAC condensate aggregation, our industrial water reuse topology guide maps out quality-banded storage trains.
The mistake to avoid
The most common misstep on a vertical tank this large is underbuilding the foundation. With more than 108,000 lb of water bearing on a 144-inch circle, an undersized or unlevel pad can crack, shift, or stress the tank wall. Size and pour the pad to the full loaded weight, not the empty tank, and confirm the base is dead level before filling. For a deeper buyer-level walkthrough of placement, plumbing, and setup, read our complete buyer's guide for this exact tank.
This Norwesco vertical storage tank ships LTL freight from the Albertville, Alabama plant, quoted live to your ZIP. Get your freight quote on our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 and we'll quote it for you and confirm the right setup for your site.
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