Norwesco 1025 Gallon Horizontal Leg Tank without Fittings

Set the pad to the 49 inch width, not the gallons

The number that should drive the site work here is 49. A thousand gallons of storage conjures a wide object, and this is not one: it is a 49 inch wide body stretched out to 139 inches, so the bearing surface under it is a strip, and everything that goes wrong with a leg tank goes wrong across that strip. Build or choose ground that carries the full 139 inches evenly. A dip under the middle third is the classic failure, and it is invisible until the tank is full, at which point 8548 lb of water is holding the shape of the mistake.

The second site number is 54 inches of height. That is a working height rather than a climbing height: the 16 inch lid is reachable from the ground or a low step for filling and for sight checks, and the tank does not need a platform built around it. If the tank has to pass through anything on the way in, the pair to measure against is 49 wide and 54 tall, empty at 310 lb, which two people and a bar can nudge and no one can carry.

Do the volume arithmetic before the ground work, not after. The tank sizing calculator turns a daily draw and a refill interval into a gallon figure, and the tank sizing guide covers the freeboard and refill-window questions that decide whether 1025 gallons is the right shelf to be on. Here is the honest limitation on this particular record: it publishes no maximum contents figure at all. The specific gravity figure is on the sheet, the water weight is on the sheet, and the pounds-of-contents line that other records in this family carry is simply absent. We are not going to compute it for you.

A record that stands alone on its own sheet

One row, and that is not an oversight on our part. The sibling list on this record is empty: Norwesco's sheet for N-40090 names no related part numbers, no larger or smaller step in the same family, and no alternate colour. Other 1025 gallon leg tanks exist in our catalog, and we are not going to pull their figures onto this page and present them as comparisons, because the moment we do you are reading one tank's numbers under another tank's part number. If you want this record set against a specific alternative, tell us which one and we will compare them field by field with both sheets open.

Neighboring size a better fit? Every row links to its own page; freight to your ZIP is quoted on each, or call 866-418-1777.

The name says no fittings; the outlet line says otherwise

• Outlet field, verbatim: 2" fitting with 2" siphon. That is what the record carries.
• Product name, verbatim: Horizontal Leg Tank without Fittings.
• Inlet: blank. Nothing is described at the fill end.
• Access: a 16 inch lid, the only opening on the record.
• Service ceiling: 120 F / 48 C; the warranty field is blank.
• Specific gravity figure: 1.5, given as a maximum of 12.52 pounds per gallon.

Those first two bullets contradict each other, and we print both halves rather than picking the one that sells better. A name is a catalogue string and a field is a data entry, and on this record they disagree about whether anything is fitted at the low point. What we will not do is resolve it for you in prose: we will not describe a siphon you may not receive, and we will not promise a bare boss either. Before you order, ask us to put the question to Norwesco against part number 40090 and we will come back with a written answer on the port.

The install specific, whichever way that answer lands: plan the plumbing so the tank can be isolated and drained without disturbing the 16 inch lid. On a body 139 inches long, the lid is your only route in for a suction line, a float or a brush, and if the discharge side has to be broken apart every time the tank is serviced you will end up doing neither job well. A union and a valve within arm's reach of the shell is the difference.

1025 gallons, 8548 lb of water, and no contents figure

The record, exactly as written: 1025 gallons in a white polyethylene body 139 by 49 by 54 inches, 310 lb empty, 310 lb shipping, crated at 139 by 49 by 54 inches, one 16 inch lid, an outlet field reading 2" fitting with 2" siphon, a blank inlet, a 1.5 specific gravity figure expanded as 12.52 pounds per gallon, 8548 lb of water at 8.34 pounds per gallon, a 120 F / 48 C ceiling, six plants, OVS ship mode and no NMFC code. There is no application field and no contents field, which means the sheet is silent about duty and so are we.

Reading around the subject, for the buyer who wants the engineering rather than the sales copy: how Norwesco's applicator and leg tank range is organised and where the non-roadable trailer scope begins and ends, the trade-off between an eductor and a mixer when you need a bulk polyethylene tank kept homogeneous, a field guide to spotting a stratified blend tank before it costs you a load, and our write-up on loaf-style portable utility tanks in farm fleet use.

Shipped oversize at 310 lb, with no NMFC code on the record

Six plants can release this tank: Hanford, California; Griffin, Georgia; St. Bonifacius, Minnesota; Owego, New York; Washington Court House, Ohio; and Shawnee, Oklahoma. The ship mode field and the freight class field both read OVS, and there is no NMFC code published on this record at all, where the freight class field originally read 400 before the served spec replaced it. An oversize move is a different conversation with a carrier than a classed LTL move, and it is worth having that conversation before the tank is built rather than after it is on a dock.

Here is the receiving check this record earns, because of that missing code: read the paperwork before you read the tank. The delivery documents should name an oversize move and should not be carrying a class and NMFC line that nobody on our side published, and the part number on the bill should read 40090. A mismatch there is usually a substituted item rather than a damaged one, and a substituted item is a problem you can solve in ninety seconds at the tailgate. Once the paper is right, walk the 139 inch length and look along the top and bottom radii at a low angle in good light. Then get your own number from the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Plan the first fill for a day you are on site, not a day the tank is filled for you. Once it is full and holding, leave it alone for a day before the plumbing goes on; a settled tank is a quiet one.