Snyder Industries 1900 Gallon ASTM XLPE Vertical Storage Tank

The duty: the everyday 1,900 gallon feed tank

Of all the tanks in this family, this is the one that goes to work without a special reason. The duty is ordinary bulk storage of an ordinary liquid: a water system's feed chemical, a greenhouse fertilizer solution, a wash bay's soap or reclaim water, a shop's glycol, a farm's stock water. All of it sits inside the 1.5 rating the sheet gives, where 1,900 gallons of water is 15,846 pounds and the wall is rated to 23,769. What makes it the default at this volume is the footprint: 72 inches of diameter fits between equipment, along a wall, or in a row of three where a wider tank would fit two. The delivery arrives at a manway 119 inches up, which is the one thing to plan for, since a platform with a rail and a plumbed fill line turn a monthly delivery into a five minute job and a ladder turns it into an argument. Below, the whole load bears on a 72 inch circle through a floor that carries across its area, so the slab gets engineered to the concrete pad sizing guide, level and in full contact. Run your draw through the tank sizing calculator before ordering and take the reserve and freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The 1780200 family, starting here

This is the tank to buy when the liquid does not demand more, and that is most of the time. It is the lighter casting at 445 pounds, it fills the same 72 by 119 inch space as every other tank in the shell, and it carries the 1.5 rating that covers water and the great majority of water-like chemistry. The 1780200N42 is the same shell at 520 pounds with the heavier rating printed on its own sheet, which is the one to order when the liquid is genuinely dense; the 1780200N46 is listed at this same 445 pounds and the 1780200N48 at 520, each rated as its own sheet gives it, and no suffix is explained here beyond what is printed. If the ceiling is the constraint rather than the floor, the SII-32118 holds 1,600 gallons at 71 inches on an 86 inch circle, and the 5050000C26 holds 2,000 gallons at 88 inches on a 90 inch circle.

Pad already poured? Send its size to 866-418-1777 or in a quote request and we will match a row to it, freight to your ZIP included.

Keeping the pump flooded to the last inches

• Pump: 119 inches of liquid over a pump mounted below the tank base is a gravity prime that holds through nearly the whole 1,900 gallons, and it is the reason a tall tank is kinder to a pump than a wide one. Keep the suction run short, avoid a high spot in it where air will collect, and fit a low-level float or probe that stops the pump before the level reaches the floor. Support the first isolation valve on its own stand off the pad rather than letting the pipe hang from the tank.
• Outlet: the sheet's outlet entry reads "1 Manway / Lid" and names no plumbed connection, so no fitting size is stated here. Tell us the liquid and the pump duty at order and we quote the bulkhead fitting, gasket and bolting with the tank, with a flexible connector into hard pipe.
• Access: 18 inch threaded, vented manway at 119 inches. A platform with a rail, a dip tube to the floor for the fill, a vent run outdoors on anything that fumes and sized to the delivery pump.
• Structure: two flange lines on the sheet. Lift and strap under the body only.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C.

If this tank turns out to be one stage of a larger scheme rather than a single feed vessel, the industrial water reuse tank topology article shows where a 1,900 gallon vessel belongs in a banded storage train and what has to be true of the stage feeding it. Otherwise the routine is short: lid closed between fills, one liquid named on the wall, a light on the headspace band at every opening, and freeze protection on the valve and the first pipe run.

Where the 1,900 gallon standard wall goes to work

Small water systems, greenhouses, dairies and stock operations, wash bays, fire-district fill points, contractors hauling water to sites with no service, plants with a water-like feed chemical. Water is well inside the rating. A standing fire reserve, though, is a specification of its own, and the fire-water reservoir design guide covers the sizing discipline and the freeze protection that job demands. Where a regulated liquid has to sit inside a second wall instead of a bermed pad, the Captor double wall freeboard guide works out what volume is actually usable at this size once freeboard and thermal expansion come out.

Chowchilla, class 300, and the first fill

Chowchilla, California is the plant; the sheet lists freight class 300 and a 445 pound tank shipping at 72 by 72 by 119 inches, and the freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP with the listed price before freight. It comes off the truck on straps under the body, never through the manway, and it gets anchored to the pad the same day, because an empty tank this tall on a six foot circle does not need much wind to move. Fill it with water to the manway, hold it, walk the base and the pad edge, then drain and dry before the working liquid goes in. Take one photograph of it standing full on its pad on day one. Every inspection after that is a comparison against that picture, and nobody ever regrets having it. Tape a copy of the spec sheet inside the control panel door; the next person to touch the tank will not have the box it came in.