Snyder Industries 15000 Gallon Black Vertical Storage Tank

One plant, one class, and 125,100 pounds of water

The plant is Lincoln, Nebraska and the class is 300, and between them they explain most of what the delivery is going to look like. A central origin means the haul is short to the Plains and the Midwest and long but single-legged to either coast; class 300 on a 142 inch by 234 inch shipment means an open deck, a permit and a route, not a dock-to-dock parcel. So the sequence is: price the lane to your ZIP in the freight cost estimator, read the listed price as before freight, then walk the route and the yard with the shipping dimensions in hand before a purchase order exists. Doing it the other way round is how a tank ends up parked at a gate it cannot pass. The pad is the other half of the pre-order work. Plain water alone puts 125,100 pounds inside this shell, the 1.5 rating allows 187,650 pounds, and a rotationally molded floor bears on its whole floor, so all of that lands on a 142 inch circle. Engineer the slab to the concrete pad sizing framework, level and in full contact, inside containment sized to the tank where the liquid is regulated, and band the empty shell to structure or to slab anchors on the day it lands rather than the week the piping is finished. A black wall passes no light into the liquid and absorbs the ultraviolet that ages a pale one outdoors; it also hides the level, so a sender and a readout at the ground are part of the install. Take 15,000 gallons to the tank sizing calculator against your draw and delivery interval, and get the reserve and the warm-weather freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The 1.5 wall beside the heavy-duty wall in the 234 inch shell

Pick this one when the liquid is ordinary and the footprint is not. It is the 1.5 wall in the tall 142 inch shell, allowed 187,650 pounds of contents, and on anything near the density of water that is all the wall you need; the 5370000C34 is the same shell at the same 4,400 pounds empty carrying the heavy-duty rating its own sheet gives it, and it is the tank to move to only if the liquid is genuinely heavy. The two 3030100 tanks hold the same 15,000 gallons on a 165 inch base and stop at 184 inches, each rated as its own sheet says, which is the better buy when the crane reach or the roof is the limit and the yard has room; this one is the better buy when the yard does not. Inside the 142 inch family the 5350000C34 is the 12,500 gallon step down at 198 inches and the 5380000C126 the 16,500 gallon step up at 257, so a site can stay on one footprint and change only the height.

Comparing against another maker? Send the competing spec to 866-418-1777 or a quote request and we will show the differences honestly.

Reaching 234 inches, and what the sheet says about the outlet

• The opening sits at 234 inches and everything else follows from that: an 18 inch threaded, vented manway nineteen feet six inches above the slab, reached by a fixed platform with a rail and a gate or a caged ladder to a landing, with the fill line landed permanently at the manway. Eighteen inches is enough for a cleaning wand, a level probe and a vent together and is not enough for a person, so plan every interior job as an outside job.
• Outlet: the sheet gives the outlet as "26" and gives no pipe size anywhere. We print the field rather than read a bare number as a diameter: the sheet lists the outlet as 26. Name the liquid and the draw-off you want at order and we confirm what this molding accepts and in what material before anything is drilled.
• Fill and vent: a dip tube to the floor so the stream does not cascade nineteen feet and foam, the vent piped outdoors on anything that fumes, and the vent sized to the delivery pump rather than the nearest port.
• Service limit: 120 F / 48 C. Warranty: 3 year. Rating: specific gravity 1.5 as the sheet gives it.

The discipline on a tank like this is mostly about what hangs off it. Anything plumbed at the base gets its own support off the pad and a flexible connector between the shell and hard pipe, because 234 inches of standing liquid puts steady pressure on a base fitting and a rigid pipe run bolted to a polyethylene wall sends every bit of thermal movement and pump vibration back into it. Above the liquid line, the headspace band is what ages first, so it gets a light at every opening and the date goes on the log. A black shell tells you nothing by eye, so the sender is the gauge and a stick through the manway is what audits the sender. Put the one liquid's name on the wall where a driver can read it from the cab, and in a freezing climate protect the base valve and the first pipe run rather than the body, which takes ice from the top down.

Duties that never approach 187,650 pounds

Most of what gets stored at 15,000 gallons is nowhere near the density this wall allows, and that is exactly the point of the 1.5 rating: process water and wash water at an industrial plant, irrigation or nutrient solution at a nursery or a farm, a municipal bulk feed chemical that sunlight would otherwise degrade, rainwater or reclaimed water on a site that wants a dark tank so nothing grows in it, and a plant consolidating a row of small vessels into one. In all of them the working figures are the 125,100 pounds a full charge of water weighs and the footprint it stands on, not the maximum the wall could take. Water sits far inside the rating, but a private fire reserve is a separate specification in a water-rated vessel, which the fire-water reservoir design guide lays out. Where a reuse train needs a dark bulk stage between treatment steps, the industrial water reuse tank topology article places a vessel of this size in the sequence.

Nebraska origin, class 300, and the week after the water goes in

The sheet gives class 300 and 4,400 pounds shipping weight from Lincoln, Nebraska, shipping at 142 inches by 142 inches by 234 inches; it is the lightest of the tall 142 inch shells here and it still prices on cube rather than on the scale, so the freight cost estimator is the right first call and the listed price is before freight. A crane or a heavy forklift takes it off the trailer with straps under the body, never through the manway, and it goes onto the cured pad inside containment on the first set rather than the second. Then the water hold: to the manway, left there, with the base and pad edge walked twice for movement or a weep before it is drained and dried for service. Check the band tension a week after the first fill; a tank settles a little, and the band that was tight is loose. Save the pallet; a tank that ever has to move again is easier to move on it.