The Snyder Industries 250 Gallon Vertical Storage Tank holds 250 gallons in a compact vertical footprint just 34 inches square, standing 83 inches tall. It is molded from High Density Linear Polyethylene (HDLPE) in white and carries a 1.9 specific gravity rating - meaning the tank wall is engineered to hold contents weighing up to 1.9 times the density of water. For most water storage duty that rating is a wide safety margin, which is exactly why this 250 gallon vertical tank is a workhorse for fresh water, fire-reserve, and general bulk storage.
Will it work for your site
At 34 x 34 inches, this vertical storage tank sets onto a compact pad and threads into tight equipment rooms, well houses, and trailer skids where a wider-diameter vertical would not fit. The footprint clears a standard 36-inch doorway, but at 83 inches tall confirm your overhead and ceiling clearance before placement. The numbers that matter for your foundation: filled with water the tank and contents weigh about 2,085 lb, and at the full 1.9 S.G. rating it is built to carry up to 3,962 lb of contents. Size your concrete pad and any anchoring to the heavier figure if you ever plan to store something denser than water - our Tank Sizing Calculator and Tank Sizing Guide walk through that math, and for the slab itself see our guide on concrete pad sizing for above-ground polyethylene tanks.
Fittings and access
The tank ships configured with a 14-inch polyethylene threaded and vented lid, a manway with an 11-3/8-inch access opening, and a bulkhead fitting for plumbing the outlet. The 14-inch threaded lid is your fill access and the single serviceable vent - keep it threaded tight and the vent clear so the tank can breathe as it fills and drains without drawing a vacuum or pressurizing the headspace. The 11-3/8-inch manway access is sized for hand and tool reach to clean and inspect the interior; it is not a body-entry, confined-space opening, so plan your cleaning around reach-in access rather than climbing in. The bulkhead fitting is your outlet plumbing point. See the technical drawing on this page for exact fitting placement and elevations before you set your inlet and outlet plumbing.
Good fit for fire-water and reuse storage
The compact 34-inch footprint and 250-gallon volume make this a common building block for rural and remote fire-water reserves and for banded water-reuse trains. If you are sizing a private fire-protection reservoir, our write-up on fire-water reservoir tank design for rural and remote sites covers NFPA 22 sizing discipline and cold-climate freeze protection. For grey-water, rainwater, and HVAC condensate aggregation, see our guide on industrial water reuse tank topology.
The mistake to avoid
The single most common error on a vertical storage tank this size is plumbing it as if water is the only thing it will ever hold. This shell carries a 1.9 S.G. rating, but a rating is not a permit to store any chemical - resin choice, gasket material, and concentration all govern chemical service, and an HDLPE water tank is built for water and water-like fluids. The detail buyers miss is the bulkhead gasket: the outlet sees whatever the gasket can tolerate, so if your storage plan ever changes, confirm both the HDLPE wall and the bulkhead gasket material against the manufacturer's chemical-resistance chart before you switch contents. For straight water duty, the only real watch-item is the vented lid: keep the vent clear so the tank can breathe.
This Snyder Industries 250 gallon vertical tank ships LTL freight from the Snyder plant in Lincoln, Nebraska, quoted live to your ZIP code. Get an exact rate with our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 and we will quote the freight and confirm fitting configuration before you order.
