Snyder Industries 4400 Gallon ASTM XLPE Vertical Storage Tank

The Lincoln lane on the lighter 4,400

Where it is made and how it travels come first. Lincoln, Nebraska puts this tank in the middle of the country, with workable lanes into the plains, the upper Midwest, the Mississippi corridor and the Front Range, and the sheet rates the move at class 300. Because the shipping size is 90 inches by 90 inches by 182 inches, the width stays inside a standard trailer and the freight is ordinary rather than oversize, which is a real saving against the wide, low tanks that hold the same volume. Then comes the question this part number answers: you need 4,400 gallons and you do not have the floor for it. A 90 inch circle is seven and a half feet, small enough to slot between existing vessels or along a wall, and the price of that is fifteen feet of height and serious anchorage. The four tiedown lugs on the sheet exist for that reason; anchors go in the slab, cables or bands go on before the first fill, and they get checked after the first storm and after the first full summer. Loaded, the tank puts 36,696 pounds of water or 55,044 pounds at the rating onto that 90 inch circle, a heavy load per square foot, and a rotationally molded floor bears across all of it, so the slab is engineered per the concrete pad sizing guide, level and in full contact, inside a berm sized to the tank where the liquid is regulated. Test the volume against your draw and delivery interval in the tank sizing calculator, and take the reserve and the thermal freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

One tower, four wall ratings

Buy this grade when the liquid is inside the 1.5 rating on this sheet, because the extra polyethylene in the heavy walls buys density you would not be using. The 5210000N42 is that heavier white wall at 1,450 pounds, rated as its own sheet says; the 5210000N46 is the black tank at this same 1,100 pounds for a liquid sunlight degrades, and the 5210000N48 the black heavy grade. Away from the tower, the trade reverses: the 7421100C34 is a black 4,300 on a 120 inch base at 104 inches, and the 7000400N29 spreads 4,500 gallons over a 143 inch circle at 91 inches tall, rated 1.35 on its own sheet, for a room where the ceiling and not the floor is what ran out.

Need the taller or the wider one? Every row links to its page with freight to your ZIP on each; 866-418-1777 will check the ceiling and the pad.

Fifteen feet two inches above the outlet line

• Access: 18 inch threaded, vented manway at 182 inches, with ladder lugs on the sheet. Fifteen feet of climb wants a fixed platform and a rail designed in with the pad, not bolted on later. Fill through a dip tube to the floor and run the vent outdoors, sized to the delivery pump, on anything that fumes.
• Outlet: the sheet lists the outlet as 14, with no pipe diameter, thread, material or gasket given anywhere beside it. The draw-off arrangement is confirmed at order with the liquid named.
• Structure: four tiedown lugs, eight lifting lugs, ladder lugs, two flange lines on the sheet.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C.

Height is what this shape gives back at the connection. Fifteen feet of standing liquid is real static pressure at the floor, so a pump set below the draw-off stays flooded deep into the tank and pulls the last inches out without complaint, and a gravity feed to something at grade may not need a pump at all. Balance that against the pressure the fitting and the first valve see: the valve gets its own support off the pad, the link to hard pipe stays flexible, and a low-level cutout keeps the pump from drawing air. Because the lid is fifteen feet up, a level sender read at grade is the practical gauge and the manway is for service rather than for looking. Keep it shut between deliveries, carry the name of the one liquid on the shell, and light the wall above the liquid line whenever it is open. In a freezing climate the valve and the first pipe run get the protection; the body takes ice from the top down.

A 4,400 gallon column where the floor ran out

The buyer is nearly always short of ground: a water plant adding a third chemical tank in a room built for two, a co-op fitting one more solution tank along a fence line, a manufacturing plant with a tall bay and a narrow chemical alley, a site where the containment curb is already poured and cannot be widened. At 1.5 on the sheet the wall covers hypochlorite and most treatment and process solutions, and it holds water with a wide margin at 36,696 pounds. That said, a fire reserve is not just a tank full of water; the sizing discipline, the connections and the freeze protection are a separate design problem, and the fire-water reservoir design guide is where that gets settled before a purchase order is written.

1,100 pounds, class 300, and four tiedown lugs

Shipping at 90 inches by 90 inches by 182 inches out of Lincoln, Nebraska, as freight at class 300 as the sheet lists it. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP and the listed price is before freight. Staying inside 90 inches of width keeps this out of wide-load territory, though 182 inches of length still needs room to stand up at the far end. At 1,100 pounds it is a light lift for a telehandler or a small crane, taken with straps under the body and to the eight lifting lugs, never through the manway. Set it, anchor it to the four tiedown lugs, then fill with water to the manway and hold while someone watches the base and pad edge for movement or a weep, and drain and dry before the working liquid. Do not leave this one standing empty and unanchored over a weekend; a tall, light tank on a narrow base is the one shape on this site that the wind can actually move. A strap that is checked once a season is a strap that holds; put it on the same calendar as the gutters.