The Chem-Tainer 150 Gallon Rectangular Open Top Tank is a straight-sided molded-plastic reservoir built for open-batch water storage, mixing, and staging where you need easy top access and a footprint that sits against a wall or in a bay. Filled to capacity with water it holds about 1,251 lb, so the pad and any stand under it have to carry that static load before you ever add anything to it.
Will this open top tank work for my job
This is a 150-gallon rectangular open-top tank sized for water-service duty: rinse and wash stations, dip and soak baths, secondary catch, rainwater collection, and general batch holding. The open top lets you drop in mixers, heaters, or level probes and get at the full contents for cleaning. One thing to plan for up front: an open-top tank ships as a plain vessel with no pre-installed bulkhead, drain, or overflow, so any plumbed connection is a field-added bulkhead fitting you supply and seal with a gasket through the wall. Size the tank by the volume you actually stage per cycle rather than by the nominal rating, and confirm the footprint fits your bay first. Our Tank Sizing Calculator and Tank Sizing Guide help you match cycle volume to the right footprint. This tank is rated for water; if you plan to stage anything denser than water, call 866-418-1777 before you assume it covers that duty rather than guessing.
How it ships
This tank ships LTL freight from the Chem-Tainer plant in West Babylon, New York, with the rate quoted live to your delivery ZIP. Note that the 1,251 lb figure is the full-water load for pad sizing, not the tank's empty shipping weight. Open-top rectangular tanks ride as bulky freight, so a business or farm address with a way to unload speeds delivery and keeps the quote down. Get a number for your ZIP in seconds with our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 and we will work it out with you.
The mistake to avoid
The one to watch on an open-top water tank is the pad. This is not a closed vertical that spreads its own load; a rectangular open-top holds roughly 1,251 lb of water across a flat bottom, and any flex or soft spot under that base will bow the wall and stress the corners over time. Set it on a full, level, continuously supported surface. If you are pouring a slab, our guide on concrete pad sizing for above-ground polyethylene tanks walks the framework. For rural catch or reserve duty, the fire-water reservoir tank design guide covers sizing and freeze protection, and for reuse and collection setups the industrial water reuse tank topology guide shows how open-top staging fits a treatment train.
Ready to move on this 150 gallon open top tank? Pull a live LTL quote to your ZIP with the Freight Cost Estimator, size it against your cycle volume with the Tank Sizing Guide, or call 866-418-1777 to lock it in.
