The Snyder Industries 4500-gallon vertical liquid storage tank is a White polyethylene vessel rated to 1.5 specific gravity. It stands 142 inches tall on a 102 x 102-inch footprint - roughly 102 inches in diameter - which is the first thing to check against your pad space and any doorway or gate clearance on the way in. The 1.5 SG rating is the detail that matters most on a tank this size: it tells you Snyder built the wall to carry liquids heavier than water, which is why this vertical storage tank can hold contents up to 56,295 pounds rather than topping out at the weight of plain water.
Will it work for your install?
Filled with water, this tank weighs about 37,530 pounds. Fill it with a denser liquid up to its 1.5 SG limit and the loaded weight climbs to roughly 56,295 pounds. Those numbers drive everything downstream - pad design, anchoring, and access. For a vessel of this height and contents weight, the foundation is not an afterthought; size your concrete pad to the loaded weight using the framework in our concrete pad sizing guide, which walks through the ACI 360R-10 approach for above-ground polyethylene tanks. If you are still settling on capacity, run your fill rate and draw-down through the Tank Sizing Calculator or read the Tank Sizing Guide before you commit. See the technical drawing on this page for fitting locations and the full dimensional layout.
Sizing it into a water system
At 4,500 gallons this is genuinely bulk storage - the size operators reach for when a single smaller tank no longer covers the demand. It is a common pick for rural and remote fire-water reservoirs, where polyethylene storage carries the standby volume in the private fire-protection stack; our guide on fire-water reservoir tank design covers NFPA 22 sizing discipline and cold-climate freeze protection if that is your use. It also fits water-reuse and aggregation systems - grey-water, rainwater, and HVAC condensate collection - where a large white vertical tank anchors a quality-banded storage train, detailed in our industrial water reuse topology guide.
The mistake to avoid
On a tall vertical polyethylene tank, premature failures tend to originate at the vapor-saturated headspace near the top, not in the liquid you can see and inspect from below. That is exactly where routine liquid-side checks miss them. If you are running anything more aggressive than ambient water, read how HDPE wall thickness behaves at the headspace and confirm the 1.5 SG rating gives you the margin your contents need. Match the rating to your actual liquid weight, not just to water, and you will not over- or under-spec the wall.
This Snyder vertical storage tank ships LTL freight, quoted live to your ZIP from the nearest of two Snyder plants - Chowchilla, CA or Lincoln, NE - so West-coast and Midwest buyers are served from the closer one. Get a real number for your delivery address with our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 and we will quote it by phone. Listed price is before freight.
