Snyder Industries 200 Gallon ASTM XLPE Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

Merced, California and the lane west of the Rockies

The plant is the reason this part number exists on a West Coast job. Merced sits in the Central Valley, so a dock in California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho or Arizona gets a short haul on the same list price that an eastern buyer would pay for a long one. Freight on 65 pounds spread over 36 inches by 53 inches is written against the deck space and the miles rather than the weight, which means the origin, not the class, is the number that moves the landed cost; the sheet's class 300 is the same either way. Get the ZIP into the freight cost estimator before the order and read the listed price as before freight. What the short tank buys on site is stability and reach. Full of water it carries 1,668 pounds and at the rating 3,169, all of it on a 36 inch circle, because a rotationally molded base bears across its whole footprint and nowhere else; the load is the same circle as the taller tanks in the family carry, so the slab requirement does not soften just because the tank is shorter. Level and in full contact under the whole base is the standard, the concrete pad sizing guide is the framework for a new pour, and a berm sized to the tank goes around it wherever the liquid is regulated. At 53 inches the centre of gravity is low enough that this is the least tippy tank on the footprint, which matters in seismic country, though 65 pounds empty still asks for a bracket or a strap to structure. Natural white shows the level through the wall and also lets daylight into the liquid, so a chemical that light degrades wants the black wall instead. Size 200 gallons against the draw in the tank sizing calculator, and take the reserve and the thermal freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The 190, the 200 and the 210: three footprints, one job

All four walls in this shell are listed at 65 pounds, so the choice inside the shell is chemistry and colour: this one for a cross-linked wall with the level visible, the 1008000N48 for the same wall kept dark, and the C34 and C26 gradings each rated as their own sheet says. The comparison worth making is against the 1540400N42, which trades floor for height: 190 gallons on a 42 inch base at only 47 inches, and 60 pounds empty, for a bench, a mezzanine or a low cabinet where 53 inches will not go. The 1012900C26 is the other direction on this same 36 inch footprint, 210 gallons at 55 inches. If the room is the constraint, pick the footprint first and the grade second; if the chemistry is the constraint, do it the other way around.

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

Four feet five inches up, and what reaches it

• Access, which is the argument for this shell over the taller ones: the 18 inch threaded, vented manway sits at 53 inches, four feet five inches. Most adults can see into it and get a hand to the threads standing flat on the floor, and a delivery or drum-pump hose goes over the rim without a lift or a ladder. That is the lowest lid on the 36 inch footprint in this range.
• Outlet: the sheet gives the outlet field as "1 Manway / Lid" and lists no bottom fitting size. It is printed as the sheet has it and is not a pipe size. Tell us the liquid and the draw-off arrangement you want at order and we confirm what this molding accepts.
• Fill and vent: a dip tube dropped through the 18 inch opening to the floor keeps the stream from foaming the headspace, the vent goes outdoors on a fuming liquid, and it is sized to whatever pump fills the tank.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C, as this sheet gives it. Warranty: 3 year.

The whole value of a reachable lid is that inspection stops being a job and becomes a habit, and the band of wall above the liquid line is the part that rewards it; the headspace wall thickness article explains why that band, not the wetted wall, is where small tanks give out first. Take a light to it, check the threads and the gasket seat, log the date, reseat the lid square, and keep it closed the rest of the time so vapour stays in and rain and grit stay out. The one liquid's name goes on the wall where it can be read from the doorway. Freeze protection belongs on the draw-off piping and the first valve; the body takes ice from the top down.

Nurseries, wash bays and small dosing loops

A low white 200 goes where the ceiling is low and the operator is hands-on: a nutrient or pH tank in a nursery or poly house, a detergent or sanitiser tank in a wash bay, a chemical make-up tank under a mezzanine, a mobile skid tank on a trailer, a small treatment plant's day tank. The XLPE versus HDPE article is where to decide whether the cross-linked wall is genuinely required. Where the chemical has to sit inside a second wall, the Captor double wall freeboard guide shows what a contained vessel really leaves usable. Water at 8.34 pounds per gallon is far inside the 1.9 rating, so it holds water without complaint, but a private fire reserve is a different specification at a far larger size, as the fire-water reservoir design guide sets out.

Sixty-five pounds on a class 300 bill

Class 300 and 65 pounds shipping weight out of Merced, California is what the sheet gives, and on a low, broad parcel like this one the carrier is charging for the space and the distance: run the ZIP through the freight cost estimator, and the listed price is before freight. It comes off a liftgate with two people lifting under the base, never with a strap through the manway, and it sits flat where it lands rather than tipped against a wall, because a base rested on its rim picks up a flat spot that shows later as a rock on the slab. Check the base edge, the threads and the vent before the driver leaves. Then the water fill to the manway, standing in its final position, held for the time the hydrostatic test methodology article gives, with a walk around the base afterwards, then drained and dried before the chemical arrives. Keep the bill of lading with the tank's log rather than in a filing cabinet; on a small tank that gets moved between rooms over the years, that page is the only thing that still says which grade and which plant it came from. Save the pallet; a tank that ever has to move again is easier to move on it.