The Snyder Industries 5000 Gallon Vertical Storage Tank (SKU 7000500C37) is a polyethylene vertical storage tank built for high-volume water and bulk-liquid duty, standing 116 inches tall on a 120-inch by 120-inch footprint. It holds 5,000 gallons in Natural White poly and carries a 1.5 specific gravity rating - the spec that does the real work on a tank this size, because it tells you the wall is engineered to carry contents heavier than water, not just clear water. On straight water service you are running with substantial margin to spare, and the numbers show exactly how much.
Will it work for your site?
Full of water this vertical storage tank weighs about 41,700 lb, while its maximum rated contents weight is 62,550 lb. That gap is your usable headroom: roughly 20,850 lb - about 50% of the design load - goes unused when you store plain water, which is why the 1.5 SG rating is generous for water (water is 1.0). Those loaded numbers, not the empty tank weight, are what your foundation has to hold. A tank this size needs a level, continuously supported pad sized for the full loaded weight across the entire 120 x 120 footprint - our guide to concrete pad sizing for above-ground polyethylene tanks walks through the ACI 360R-10 framework for getting that pad right. If you are still confirming the volume you need, the Tank Sizing Calculator and Tank Sizing Guide help you match capacity to actual draw and refill.
What this 5000 gallon vertical tank is good for
This is a workhorse for rural and remote water reservoirs, irrigation supply, process water, and water reuse storage. For private fire protection, our fire-water reservoir design guide covers NFPA 22 sizing discipline and freeze protection for cold-climate service, where a single 5,000 gallon vertical tank often anchors the stored-water portion of the system. Because the 1.5 SG rating carries water with full design margin, the limiting factors in fire and cold-weather duty are pad support and freeze protection, not the wall rating - plan around those. Sites aggregating grey water, rainwater, or HVAC condensate into a quality-banded storage train should review our industrial water reuse tank topology guide before plumbing the inlets and outlets. If your application calls for secondary containment, the containment step-up from a single-wall tank is a double-wall design - our Snyder Captor double-wall freeboard sizing guide covers how that affects usable volume.
The mistake to avoid
The real trap on a vertical storage tank this size is treating it like a smaller tank during install: a 62,550 lb maximum loaded weight concentrated on a 120 x 120 pad is unforgiving of an uneven or undersized foundation, and poly tanks do not tolerate point-loading or partial support. Just as important - fitting sizes, gasket materials, and outlet configuration are not published in this listing, so do not assume them. Confirm fittings, outlet locations, gaskets, and any gallon-marker requirements against the technical drawing on this page, or by phone, before you set the tank and trench your plumbing. Moving a bottom outlet after the fact is not an option on a unit this scale.
This tank ships LTL from the Snyder plant in Chowchilla, California, with freight quoted live to your ZIP - there is no flat shipping number on a 5,000 gallon vertical tank. Get a freight estimate with our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 and we will work the routing, delivery access, and offload with you. Listed price is before freight.
