3000 Gallon Plastic Vertical Liquid Storage Tank in Black

The wide 3000: 353 pounds on a 102 inch base

Four shells on this sheet hold 3000 gallons and they are not the same purchase, so start there. This one is the wide, low one: 102 inches of base, 97 inches of height, 353 pounds empty. Its nearest relation is the 32781, listed on the same sheet at 102 by 102 by 97 inches and 350 pounds in a black straight wall, and the difference between the two figures is what the sheet gives and all this page will say about it. Against the narrower moldings, the trade is clean. Eight feet one inch of height is what a wide shell buys you, and that is low enough to stand under a single-storey eave, under a shade structure, below an orchard row's lower branches, and inside the sightline limits a county or an association imposes; low enough, too, that the manway is reached from a short step rather than from fixed access with a rail. A black wall is the second half of the buy: it passes no light to the water, which is what people want when a tank stands in the sun all summer and nobody wants to think about what light does to standing water. What the shape costs is ground, and the cost is not small. Every pound of 25,020 stands on a 102 inch circle, carried by whatever the molded floor is touching and nothing else, so a low edge or a hollow under the middle becomes the new bearing point rather than a cosmetic fault. The base is level, continuous, in full contact and wider than the tank, and the overflow is piped somewhere that is not the edge of the pad, because a wide tank washing out one side of its own base is the classic failure on a farm install. At 353 pounds empty the shell is light enough for wind to shift before the first fill, so band it while it is empty. Then check the volume against the real duty rather than the shape: run 3000 gallons against the draw of your rig, pump or line in the tank sizing calculator, and take the reserve and the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

Four 3000 gallon shells, two bases

Two bases, four volumes, and a clear reason to take each one. On this tank's own 102 inch base the choice is between this molding at 353 pounds and the straight-wall 32781 at 350 pounds, and the sheet gives no difference beyond those figures and the wall description. Step in to the 96 inch base and the pair of taller moldings put the same 3000 gallons at 109 inches, better than a foot higher on a footprint half a foot narrower, the black SII-32567 at 382 pounds and the green SII-32569 at 427 pounds: that is the buy when floor is the scarce thing and height is free. Either side of the volume, the 2600 gallon SII-WG62 is the lowest of the group at 91 inches on the narrow base, and the 3500 gallon SII-32294 is the tallest at 125 inches and 535 pounds, which is where to go when the pad is already poured and the demand grew. This page is the widest and lowest way to hold 3000 gallons here, in black, with the largest manway size in the group. The shape argument across the wide 3000 gallon shells is worked through in both of our guides to them, the first wide 3000 gallon buyers guide and the second wide 3000 gallon buyers guide, each written to a different molding on this base.

Found the 3000 gallon tank in the table? Freight to your ZIP is one click; add it to your cart above, or call 866-418-1777 to check the grade.

A 26 inch manway is the vent and the way in

• Vent first: the 26 inch threaded vented manway is the biggest lid in this family and it does three jobs at once, fill point, vent path and the only genuine access for cleaning a shell this wide. The vent has to pass the air a fast fill displaces and the air a pump demands on the way out, so keep it clear, keep it screened, and never let a transfer pump draw against a blocked vent. On a tank that holds 25,020 pounds of water, a pump and a blocked vent will win.
• Why the size matters: 102 inches of floor collects sediment across a wide, flat area, and a 26 inch opening is the difference between reaching that floor with a hose and a brush and not reaching it at all. Log the date the tank was last opened and cleaned.
• Fill: the 1-1/2 inch polypropylene female NPT bulkhead inlet takes a hose or a pressurised line so a delivery is not hammering into the open manway from above, which keeps the lid shut and the water cleaner.
• Outlet: a 2 inch polypropylene female NPT bulkhead fitting at the base, as the sheet lists it. Make the thread up once, correctly, then fit a union or a flange a short way downstream so a valve change never means working on the tank fitting.
• Service limit and warranty: neither appears on this sheet, so neither is claimed here.

Eight feet one inch of shell puts a little under eight feet of water over the base fitting, which is real suction head for a transfer or booster pump, and the only way to keep it is to set the pump below the outlet on its own base with a short, slightly falling run into the suction port. A pump lifted to bench height beside a low tank throws away the one thing the shape gives you and then sounds like a failing pump at the end of every draw. Add a cleanable strainer, a check valve where the line lifts, and a float or run-dry cut-out that stops the pump with water still over the fitting. Keep machinery away from the outlet with a kerb or a bollard, protect the valve and the exposed pipe against freezing rather than the body, and fit a level reading where the operator stands, because a wide tank hides its own level: a hundred gallons out of a 102 inch circle barely moves the surface.

Bulk water where nothing is allowed to stand tall

The duties that suit a wide, low 3000 are the ones where a slow source has to feed a fast demand and the tank cannot be tall: filling a spray rig or a nurse trailer from a well that cannot keep pace, holding irrigation water for a drip or micro-sprinkler block, stock and poultry water on a farm where one pad replaced four tanks, wash-down and equipment rinse water at a plant or a yard, hydrant flushing and main-testing water at a district yard, dust control and compaction water on a construction job, and a buffer under a shade structure or an open-sided building whose eave decides the height. Where the tank is one stage in a system that collects water from one process and feeds the next rather than a standalone vessel, the industrial water reuse tank topology article sets out the sequencing and what has to be true either side of it. Water held against a fire is a different design problem again, decided by draw rate, connection and freeze protection rather than by volume, and the fire-water reservoir design guide is where that gets argued out honestly.

Albertville, Alabama, an oversize load at class 500

The SII-32570 ships from Albertville, Alabama at class 500 as the sheet lists it, shipping at 102 inches by 102 inches by 97 inches, and it moves as an oversize load rather than as ordinary freight. Eight and a half feet of width is the number that governs everything: it is wider than the trailer is meant to carry, so the gate has to be wider than the tank, the approach has to be firm enough for a loaded trailer after rain, and the truck needs a place to stop where it does not have to reverse out. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP and the listed price is before freight. Take it off with a forklift or telehandler and slings under the body, never a hook through the manway, and set 353 pounds straight onto the finished base rather than beside it. Have the pad cured and level before the delivery date. The one thing that makes a wide tank expensive is moving it twice. Check the strap tension a week after the first fill; a tank settles a little, and the strap that was tight is loose.