Snyder Industries 2000 Gallon Plastic Water Storage Tank in White

The duty is water: districts, farms and a reserve that has to be designed

Follow the duty and the shape explains itself. The people who buy a low, wide 2000 are the ones who need bulk water and cannot spend height on it: a water or irrigation district holding flushing and main-test water at a yard; a farm or ranch consolidating several small tanks into one pad, one outlet and one pump; a grower filling a spray rig and a drip header from the same vessel; a nursery or greenhouse buffering a slow supply against a fast demand; a contractor running dust control and compaction water on a long job; a plant holding wash or make-up water where the roof of an open-sided building sets the ceiling; a rural property taking hauled water off a truck. Six feet five inches of height is what makes all of that work. It keeps the tank under most single-storey eaves, under a shade structure, below a fence line and out of the sightline rules some counties and most homeowner associations apply, and it puts the 20 inch manway within reach of a short step rather than a ladder and a rail. What it costs is ground: eight feet of diameter carrying every pound of 16,680, and up to 18,348 at the sheet's rating, through a floor that bears on the whole surface it touches and nothing else. A low corner, a hollow under the middle or a pad poured to the tank's edge rather than past it is not a cosmetic problem, it is the new bearing point. At 358 pounds empty it is also light enough for wind to move before the first fill, so band or strap it while it is empty rather than after. Two references do the arithmetic this page should not pretend to do for you. Run 2000 gallons against your real draw and refill interval in the tank sizing calculator, and take the reserve you should never dip into plus the freeboard water needs as it warms from the tank sizing guide. If you are weighing this shell against the alternatives from other makers rather than against its own siblings, our Snyder against Norwesco against Chem-Tainer comparison puts the published figures side by side, and the complete buyers guide to the natural white verticals works through the shape decision itself. That guide is titled for a taller, narrower shell than this sheet publishes, so read it for the argument rather than for this tank's dimensions.

Four ways this sheet holds 2000 gallons upright

Four part numbers here hold 2000 gallons and the silhouette is the whole difference. This tank is the widest and the lowest of them: eight feet across and 77 inches tall. The three 5050000 part numbers put the same volume on a 90 inch base and stand 88 inches, which is eleven inches more height for six inches less floor, and the sheet names two of them black and one of them heavy duty at 340 pounds each. Take one of those when the pad is the binding constraint and nothing overhead is; take this one when the ceiling, the eave or the sightline is fixed and the ground is not. The other two step the volume rather than the shape. The 1780200N40 is the slim one, 1900 gallons on a 72 inch base standing 119 inches at 445 pounds, which buys a small footprint and a tall column of water at the price of a serious strapping job and a manway well out of reach. The 5090000C26 is the step up, 2500 gallons at 90 by 107 inches and 450 pounds, and it is the honest recommendation if the refill interval on 2000 gallons is already too short. One thing to be clear about: this page cites only the figures its own sheet publishes for those siblings, and where a sibling is named heavy duty or named black, that is the sheet's own wording and not a claim about wall thickness or pigment that we are making on its behalf. Ask us and we will get the manufacturer's own documentation on any of them before you order.

Ready to choose a row? Add the 2000 gallon tank to your cart above with freight quoted to your ZIP, or 866-418-1777 will confirm it against the site first.

The bulkhead outlet, the pump below it and the vented manway above

• The pump: 77 inches of shell puts a little over six feet of water above the base fitting, which is modest suction head, so the pump wants to sit below the outlet on its own base with a short run falling into the suction. Do that and the column primes the pump and keeps it flooded down to the last inches of the tank. Lift the pump to bench height beside a low, wide tank and you have thrown away the only head the shape gives you, and it will lose prime at the end of every draw.
• Prime and protection: a straight run before the first elbow, a strainer that can be cleaned without breaking the line, a check or foot valve where the pump has to hold prime between calls, and a low level float or run-dry stop that quits with water still over the fitting. On a 96 inch circle the last inches of level cover a great deal of floor, so a dry run arrives suddenly rather than gradually.
• Outlet: a 2 inch polypropylene female NPT bulkhead fitting, as the sheet lists it. A threaded bulkhead under standing head wants the thread made up properly once and then left alone, so put a union or a flange a short way downstream and do every later valve change there rather than on the tank fitting itself.
• The first joint and the first valve: a flexible connector off the bulkhead, always, and the valve carried on its own support off the pad rather than hanging on the wall. A rigid line set in concrete right up to a polyethylene tank will hold while the tank moves, and the fitting is what gives.
• Access: a 20 inch threaded vented manway on top, 77 inches up, which is a step rather than a ladder. It is a large enough opening for a hand, a light and a brush, which is what makes a tank this wide genuinely cleanable. Keep it closed against dust and birds and keep the vent clear; a blocked vent with a pump drawing will pull the wall inwards.
• Service limit: 120 F / 48 C, as the sheet gives it, and no warranty term is published on this sheet, so none is stated here.

Two more habits pay for themselves on a wide tank. Plan the overflow before the first fill and pipe it away from the pad rather than over the edge of it, because a wide tank that washes out one side of its own base is the most common failure on farm installations. And put a level reading where the operator stands, since 2000 gallons drawn from an eight foot circle moves the surface very little per hundred gallons, and a wide tank hides its own level far better than a tall one does. Where winter is real, trace or insulate the valve and the exposed pipe and leave the body to ice from the top down.

Hauled water, reuse trains and irrigation supply on a low shell

The duties are the bulk water ones where the tank is a buffer between a slow source and a fast demand: filling a spray rig or a nurse trailer from a well that cannot keep pace; irrigation and drip supply for a block or a greenhouse range; hauled water taken off a truck at a property with no well; stock and trough water on a ranch; dust control and compaction water on a construction job; hydrant flushing and main-test water at a district yard; wash-down, rinse and make-up water at a plant. Two of those deserve more than a mention. Where the tank is one stage in a train that collects, treats and re-uses water rather than a standalone vessel, the industrial water reuse tank topology article sets out the sequencing and what has to be true either side of a vessel this size. And where the water is being held against fire, the honest distinction is that a reserve is defined by draw rate, connection and freeze protection rather than by gallons standing on a pad; the fire-water reservoir design guide works through what it takes to make that claim real. One limit worth stating: the sheet rates this wall at a specific gravity of 1.1, which is the figure to check your liquid against before you buy, and we will check it with you rather than assume water.

Merced, California, a wide load at 358 pounds

The SII-32722 ships from Merced, California at class OVS under NMFC 156600, shipping at 96 inches by 96 inches by 77 inches and 358 pounds, and it moves as an oversize load rather than as ordinary freight. Eight feet across is wider than a pallet, wider than most doorways and wider than a trailer is meant to carry, so the route is part of the purchase: check the gate, the turn, the overhead lines and where the truck can stop, because a load this wide does not reverse out of a bad approach and a refused delivery is charged both ways. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. Unload with a forklift, a telehandler or slings under the body, never a hook through the manway, and set it on the finished pad rather than parking it on the dirt beside the pad, because 358 pounds of empty tank moves easily now and not at all once there is water in it. Get the banding on before the machine leaves. Then fill it with clean water once, hold it, and read the pad edge, the base, the bulkhead outlet and the manway seal through the hold. Chalk the full-water line on the outside after that first fill; it is the mark every later reading gets checked against. Leave room to walk all the way around it; the side of the tank nobody can see is the side that leaks.