The Snyder Industries 360 Gallon Open Top Batch Storage Tank is built for operations that mix, measure, and draw down water in repeatable batches without working around a closed lid. The open top gives you full overhead access for filling, manual additions, agitation, and visual level checks, and the cylindrical body sits on a 48 x 48 inch footprint while standing 53 inches tall. The shell is molded in white High Density Linear Polyethylene (HDLPE), and the standout spec is its 1.9 specific gravity rating, a meaningfully tougher build than a typical 1.0 to 1.5 SG open-top storage tank.
Will it work for your batch?
This is a 360 gallon working vessel rated to a specific gravity of 1.9, which means the wall is engineered for contents far denser than water. Plain water weighs about 8.34 pounds per gallon, so a full 360 gallons of water is roughly 3,002 pounds bearing on the pad; at the tank's full 1.9 SG rating the contents can reach about 5,705 pounds. That headroom is the point: this open-top is built to batch dense slurries, brines, and concentrates, not just water. Knowing both numbers up front keeps you out of trouble, so size the slab and stand for the heaviest thing you will actually batch. Empty, the tank is light enough to set in place by hand or forklift and only reaches those figures once filled, which makes pad staging and rigging straightforward. If you are weighing this against a different capacity or shape, run your real numbers through the Tank Sizing Calculator and the Tank Sizing Guide before you commit, since an open top tank changes how you handle splash, evaporation, and overhead clearance compared with a closed storage tank.
Mounting, clearance, and fittings
An open top white storage tank like this one wants a flat, fully supported, level base under the entire 48 x 48 inch footprint. Polyethylene carries load through the floor of the tank, so a continuous concrete pad or equivalent rigid surface is the right foundation for a vessel that can hold thousands of pounds; our guide to concrete pad sizing for above-ground polyethylene tanks walks through the framework. Because access is from the top, leave working headroom above the 53 inch rim for fill lines, agitators, or a drum hoist, a constraint a closed tank does not impose. This tank is supplied for field-fitting, so bulkhead fittings and gaskets are selected and placed per your own drain and outlet plan. Confirm size and location against the technical drawing on this page before ordering hardware, or call 866-418-1777 and we will help you spec it.
Where it fits
Open top batch storage earns its place anywhere you need raw, untreated, or staged water held in a vessel you can reach into: rainwater and grey-water collection trains, HVAC condensate aggregation, fire-water reserve makeup, and general process or wash water. If you are designing a multi-stream reuse system, our industrial water reuse tank topology guide and our fire-water reservoir design guide show how a tank this size slots into the larger storage architecture. If your batching needs secondary containment, our Snyder Captor double-wall freeboard sizing guide covers the contained alternative to a single-wall open-top.
This tank ships LTL freight from Marked Tree, AR, and freight is quoted live to your ZIP code rather than included in the list price. Get an exact number with our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 and we will quote it for you and confirm the right configuration for your batch storage job.
