Norwesco 6500 Gallon Black Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

Reading this row against the 6500s on the same sheet

The family is the first thing to look at, because this sheet carries several rows at 6500 gallons and they are not all the same shell. This record prints 120 by 120 by 147 inches. Three of the rows beside it print 119 by 119 by 150 inches, a different circle and a different height for the same gallon figure. The sheet gives both and we print what it says, without merging them into one shape or explaining why the catalogue holds two. If your pad or your bund is already set, that distinction is not a detail; it is the whole decision.

What belongs to 42973 alone is the block of cells around it: 1506 lb empty, a grade line of 1.9, 102999 lb of maximum contents, a 16 inch vented top opening and a five year warranty cell. Read that block against the service in front of you. Two of the neighbouring rows print 1506 lb as well, at their own capacity in their own shell, which is another reason to buy by part number rather than by any single figure on a page.

The ground under a ten foot circle carrying 54210 lb of water is the part of the job that has to be right before anything else is. Poly takes the shape of what it stands on, so the whole base wants to be level and continuous, not merely solid at the middle. Our pad sizing framework for poly tanks works through that, and the tank sizing calculator and tank sizing guide settle the volume before the concrete does.

Vent, draw, ceiling

• Vent. The 16 inch threaded manway is vented, and that is the tank's only published air path. When the 3 inch line pulls from the bottom of twelve feet of column, air has to come back through the top at the same rate, which is what keeps the draw steady. Anything fitted to that opening later has to preserve the function.
• Draw. A 3 inch PP female NPT bulkhead fitting with a 2 inch reducer, described as one assembly. Female thread in polypropylene takes a male mating part, and the reducer means the line can leave at the smaller size without a second penetration. The inlet cell holds a dash, so no fill connection is published at all and that arrangement starts as a discussion with us.
• Ceiling. The temperature cell reads 120 F / 48 C, and the grade line of 1.9 sits against 102999 lb of maximum contents. Those three figures are read together and they belong to this part number rather than to the capacity.

The honest limitation is the opening: at 16 inches this is a look-in and rinse-out tank, not one anybody enters, so the cleaning regime has to suit a hose and a light. Agree that before the first charge and the tank will stay easy to own.

Five rows, three of them at 6500 gallons

The bottom row is the one worth pausing on. It prints 6502 gallons into a 102 inch circle carried to 196 inches, so a capacity within a gallon or two of this record sits on a much smaller piece of ground and reaches much further into the air. That is a genuine site choice and the gallons column hides it completely. Everything else on the list is a 119 or 120 inch circle at a similar height, which is the same ground plan with different cells attached.

Picked the 6500 gallon tank? Add it to your cart above; freight is quoted to your ZIP before you pay anything.

Bulk that has to sit on an existing ten foot pad

Six and a half thousand gallons is the working size for a site that has outgrown totes and does not want a farm of small tanks: one shell, one draw, one thing to inspect. Process water buffering and reclaim are the common duties, and where the stream is being recovered our reuse storage topology article is the one that decides how many vessels you actually need. On rural property the duty is often stored reserve, and the reservoir design write-up for remote sites covers the layout and the cold weather protection together.

One install specific for a shell this shape: at 147 inches the top is reachable from a modest permanent platform, which is worth building at the same time as the pad. A tank you can get to the top of safely gets inspected; one that needs a lift booked does not.

Fairfield, Texas is the only plant printed

The plant cell reads Fairfield and the ships-from cell reads Texas, a single origin for this part number. Freight moves LTL and the class cell reads 300, while the NMFC cell is left empty, so the class is the number a carrier will price against. At 1506 lb on a ten foot base, the load is deck space rather than tonnage. Give us the destination in the freight cost estimator and we will quote the lane from Fairfield rather than an average; the listed price is before freight.

Read the shell before you sign. Find the part number moulded into the tank itself and match it against 42973 on the bill of lading, because on a sheet where several rows share a capacity the paperwork and the plastic have to agree before the truck leaves.

Then leave the valve shut for the first day after it is set and walk the base in the morning; ground that is going to move under a ten foot circle usually says so overnight. Keep the delivery paperwork with the tank; the serial number on the shell is what a warranty claim starts from.