Norwesco 5000 Gallon Black Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

The squat 5000 and the headroom argument

Most arguments about a 5000 gallon tank end up being arguments about height. This record answers that argument by putting the volume on the ground: a base eleven feet nine across and a crown at seven feet two, which is a shell that goes inside a building, under a canopy, beneath a low truss or into a bay where a column of the same volume simply cannot stand. Operators like it for a second reason, which is that the lid is reachable without a fixed platform, so sampling, cleaning and inspection do not need scaffolding scheduled around them. As standing reserve at a site away from the mains, the volume wants to come from a demand calculation, which our fire water reservoir tank design guide for rural and remote sites sets out, along with what a cold climate does to a standing volume. As a holding stage in a reuse train, banding grey water, rainwater or condensate by quality before treatment, our industrial water reuse tank topology guide shows the sequence. The contents check comes first in every case: the 1.9 grade line and 79230 lb of maximum contents are what a candidate liquid has to clear.

Site work for a very wide base

A base this wide changes the site work in a way people underestimate. Eleven feet nine of diameter means the pad has to be flat and continuous over a very large area, and large areas are where slabs crown, dish and crack. A dish in the middle is as bad as a high spot at the edge, because the shell will follow it and carry 41700 lb of water on a distorted base ring. Check the surface across several chords rather than one, and extend the bearing past the shell so the perimeter never rests on an edge. Our concrete pad sizing guide for above ground polyethylene tanks is the framework we work to for exactly this case. Access is the other half of the site plan. The tank is short but very wide, so allow room to walk the whole circle with a hose and a light, and remember that the far side of the shell is nearly twelve feet from the near side when you plan where the pump and the panel go. No structural attachment is published on this record, so restraint is your own design. If the volume is still a moving target, the tank sizing calculator and the tank sizing guide will settle it before a pad this large is poured.

A siphon tube in a three inch bulkhead

Start with the outlet, because the siphon tube is the detail that separates this record from a plain bulkhead. A siphon tube draws from inside the tank rather than from the wall face, which is a meaningful difference on a shell only seven feet two tall and very wide: the liquid depth is modest, and where the draw picks up decides how much of the volume is actually usable and how much sediment travels with it. Plumb it accordingly, with a valve and a union close to the wall and the pipe supported on its own legs rather than on the fitting. The honest limitation here is that one low connection and one top opening is the entire published arrangement; no second port, no level instrument and no internal detail beyond the siphon tube appears on the sheet, so anything else is a modification you plan and fit yourself.

Torn between two rows? Call 866-418-1777 with the liquid and the ceiling height, or ask for a quote on both and compare the freight.

Five rows at 5000 and 4995 gallons, two shells

The list divides cleanly by shape rather than by volume. Two rows put 5000 gallons on a 102 inch plan and take it to 152 inches, which is a tall column for a site with height and no floor. Two rows, including this one, use the 141 inch plan at 86 inches, and each of those rows prints its own weight cell, which we reproduce as given without reconciling them. One row at 4995 gallons sits on a 142 inch plan. Order 43833B when what you want is the 141 by 141 by 86 shell with a 1014 lb empty cell, a 1.9 grade line, 79230 lb of maximum contents and a 5 Year Warranty cell against the part number. When rows differ only by catalogue number, the part number is what you buy and what we quote.

One plant in California and a long lane

This is the freight fact that matters most on 43833B: the record prints a single plant, Hanford in California, and a single ship-from state to match. Everything else in this family ships from several origins, so plan for a longer lane and a longer lead than a multi-plant row, especially east of the Rockies. Ship mode reads LTL and the freight class cell reads 300, while the NMFC code cell stays blank with the class printed, so quote the class and leave the code out of the paperwork. An eleven foot nine shell takes real deck space, and space rather than the 1014 lb is what prices the load. The listed price is before freight; the freight cost estimator will price the lane to your ZIP so there is no surprise at the end. At delivery, before a fork goes anywhere near it, get low and check the underside of the base edge all the way round the 141 inch circle, because on a wide shallow tank that rim is what the deck has been working against for the whole trip. The first fill is the only cheap time to find a problem, so do it in daylight with someone watching the base.