The Snyder Industries 1000 Gallon Used Oil Containment Tank is a single-wall storage tank built for spent oil and other dense industrial fluids, with a yellow High Density Linear Polyethylene shell rated to a 1.9 specific gravity and a factory level gauge so you can read inventory at a glance without opening the tank. It stands 80.5 inches square on its footprint (about 45 square feet) and 69 inches tall. The 1.9 SG rating is the headline spec: the wall is engineered for contents far denser than water, which is exactly what a used-oil or industrial-fluid program needs. "Containment" here names the service this tank is built for, not a built-in secondary basin, so plan any berm or spill-containment as a separate part of the install.
Will it work for your fluid and your load?
Capacity is 1000 gallons. Filled with water this tank weighs about 8,340 lbs, and at its maximum rated contents the loaded weight reaches 15,846 lbs. Those two numbers bracket what your pad and your forklift or crane have to handle, so size the foundation to the rated figure, not the water figure. Because the shell is HDLPE at a 1.9 SG rating, it tolerates the weight of dense fluids that would over-stress a standard 1.0 or 1.5 SG water tank. To convert fluid depth to volume and match the tank to your throughput, run the Tank Sizing Calculator or read the Tank Sizing Guide. Outlet and inlet sizes are not published in our data for this model, so treat the technical drawing on this page as the authority before you plan any plumbing.
Set it on the right foundation
A loaded weight near 15,846 lbs concentrates real force on the slab beneath it. Pour and size the pad for the full rated load before the tank arrives, level it, and support the full 80.5 x 80.5 inch footprint. Our guide on concrete pad sizing for above-ground polyethylene tanks walks through the ACI 360R-10 framework so the foundation matches the contents weight. The factory level gauge is a useful start on inventory tracking; if you later want telemetry or alarms, our overview of tank level gauge selection compares radar, ultrasonic, hydrostatic, and magnetostrictive options. If you are running this 1000 gallon vessel as bulk water or reservoir storage instead, the fire-water reservoir tank design guide covers NFPA 22 sizing and cold-climate freeze protection.
The mistake to avoid
Do not treat this like a 1.0 SG water tank. It is rated to 1.9 SG for a reason, and the contents you put in it can weigh nearly twice what the same volume of water would. Confirm the specific gravity of your contents stays at or below 1.9 (the top of the standard Snyder range), and size every downstream part of the install to the 15,846 lb rated load rather than the 8,340 lb water figure. Underestimating that loaded weight is the single most common way these installs go wrong.
This 1000 gallon containment tank ships LTL freight, quoted live to your ZIP from the nearest Snyder plant in our network, either Chowchilla, CA or Lincoln, NE. Get an estimate with the Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 and we'll quote it for you. See the technical drawing on this page for fitting locations and exact dimensions before you finalize your plumbing.
