The Snyder Industries 1500 Gallon Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank is a polyethylene vertical storage tank built for bulk water duty where the extra wall thickness earns its keep. It carries a 1.9 specific gravity rating, which is the heavy-duty differentiator: full of plain water it holds roughly 12,510 lb of contents, but at its 1.9 rating it is engineered for up to 23,769 lb of contents — nearly 1.9x the density of water. If you cross-shopped a standard 1.0 to 1.1 SG water tank and found it under-rated for your fluid, this is the terminal, top-rated version of that vertical. Those two weight figures are the numbers to design your pad and anchoring around.
Will it work for your site?
This is a nominal 1500-gallon vertical for bulk water, fire reserve, rainwater aggregation, or process make-up, and the 1.9 SG rating means density is not the limiting factor. Treat 1500 gallons as nominal, not usable — verify the drawn fill line and true working volume against the technical drawing on this page before you commit. The fitting, inlet, outlet, and vent-port configuration is not specced in this listing, so confirm the port layout against the drawing or by phone before ordering. If you are still choosing a size, the Tank Sizing Calculator and Tank Sizing Guide walk through capacity, height, and diameter trade-offs.
The weight is the thing to plan for
The common mistake on a 1500-gallon vertical is under-building the foundation. A full-water load near 12,510 lb, and up to 23,769 lb of contents at the 1.9 rating, has to sit on a flat, fully supporting, level pad — a poly tank should never bridge or bear on point loads. Our guide on concrete pad sizing for above-ground polyethylene tanks covers the ACI framework for a load of this magnitude. Plan a vent that keeps up with your fill and draw rates too; our atmospheric vent capacity calculations run API 2000 worked examples on 1500-to-10000 gallon verticals.
Fire reserve and reuse duty
For a private fire-protection stack or a rural fire-water reservoir, our fire-water reservoir design guide covers NFPA 22 sizing discipline and cold-climate freeze protection. For grey-water, rainwater, or HVAC condensate aggregation, see our industrial water reuse tank topology guide.
This tank ships LTL freight from the Snyder plant in Chowchilla, California, quoted live to your ZIP code. Because the origin is on the West Coast, freight scales with distance to East-Coast ZIPs, so pull a live number before you commit with our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777. Plan offload and rigging around the loaded weight, and we will confirm offload requirements for a tank this size.
