15000 Gallon Vertical Liquid Storage Tank

Where it goes

Pick the wide fifteen thousand when you have the ground and would rather not have the height: a roof line or power line to respect, a windy location, a shorter fixed ladder. It serves as a dairy, feedlot or ranch water supply, a bulk fertilizer or crop protection tank, a process or reuse buffer, and a rural fire reserve. Full of water the floor carries 125100 lb of liquid plus the tank over a circle 165 inches across, so the pad is designed, not improvised: level, continuous, carrying the whole floor, sized with our concrete pad sizing guide. For a fire reserve, the fire water reservoir design guide covers sizing discipline and freeze protection; for rainwater and reuse, the industrial water reuse topology guide shows where a tank this size sits in the train. 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 316 stainless steel female NPT bolted fitting, factory installed low in the side wall. Your 3 inch valve threads straight in. Support the valve and the first run of pipe on their own so the fitting carries liquid, not hardware.
2. Manway. A 22 inch threaded vented manway on top, 186 inches up: fill point, vent and a wide opening for a pump drop, a float or a cleaning crew's gear. A fixed ladder or a platform is the safe way up.
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. For anything other than water or a common fertilizer, tell us what it is so we can check it against both the polyethylene and the stainless fitting.

Sizes nearby

Same shell in black, which keeps light and algae out of stored water: the 15000 gallon black vertical tank 43821B. Same shell rated for liquids up to 1.9 specific gravity: the 15000 gallon blue heavy duty vertical tank 43823 and the 15000 gallon black heavy duty vertical tank 43823B. One size down, narrower and a little taller: the 13000 gallon black heavy duty vertical tank 44017B. Five hundred gallons more on a much narrower, much taller shell: the 15500 gallon black heavy duty vertical tank 43943B. 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 the nearest of Norwesco's Albertville, Alabama, Fairfield, Texas, St. Bonifacius, Minnesota and Washington Court House, Ohio plants, 186 by 165 by 165 inches and 3314 lb on the truck. A tank nearly fourteen feet across travels on an open trailer and needs a forklift or a loader with forks rated for the weight, a crew with straps, and a clear route from the truck to the pad. The listed price is before freight; the freight cost estimator gives the lane cost to your ZIP, or request a written quote for a job that needs paperwork. At the tailgate, check the part number against 43821 on the bill of lading, look over the shell and the stainless fitting 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.