The Snyder Industries 5100 Gallon HDPE Vertical Liquid Storage Tank is a full-size vertical storage tank for high-volume water and liquid service, molded in High Density Linear Polyethylene with a 1.9 specific-gravity rating. Standing 159 inches tall on a 102 x 102 inch footprint, it holds 5,100 gallons and is built to handle dense liquids well beyond plain water - useful headroom if your application ever shifts to something heavier than 1.0 SG.
Will this 5100 gallon vertical tank work for your site?
This is a vertical storage tank in white, 159 inches tall with a 102-inch nominal outside diameter sitting in a 102 x 102 inch footprint - so confirm you have the overhead clearance and a level pad that carries the full bounding box before ordering. Plan your foundation around the loaded weight, not the empty shell: filled with plain water (1.0 SG) the tank and contents reach roughly 42,534 lb, and at its full 1.9 SG rating the maximum rated contents weight climbs to about 80,815 lb. That 102 x 102 inch base needs to carry the load evenly across its whole footprint. If you are matching tank size to demand, run the numbers through our Tank Sizing Calculator and review the Tank Sizing Guide before you commit.
Fittings and the technical drawing
The outlet and fitting configuration is not specified in this listing, so do not assume a standard layout. Check the technical drawing on this page for the as-built fitting positions, outlet locations, and dimensional detail specific to this Snyder vertical tank, or call us to confirm before you order. Because a 5,100 gallon column of liquid puts real static head on the lower outlet, verify the fitting and gasket materials match your plumbing and chemistry rather than guessing.
The mistake to avoid
The common error on a tank this large is under-building the foundation. People size the pad for water weight and forget that this tank is rated to 1.9 specific gravity - meaning at full rating it can hold contents weighing nearly twice what water does. This tank is rated for liquids up to 1.9 SG, so if there is any chance you will store something denser than water, do two things together: confirm your fittings and gaskets are chemically compatible with that fluid, and design the pad and anchoring for the 80,815 lb rated load rather than the 42,534 lb water figure. The other frequent miss is overhead clearance - at 159 inches tall this tank will not clear most standard doorways or low roof lines, so measure your access path before delivery day. That same 159 inches of liquid column also drives the highest static head onto the lower wall and outlet, which is exactly the failure-origin region covered in our HDPE wall-thickness and ASTM D1998 sizing breakdown.
This Snyder Industries vertical HDPE storage tank ships LTL freight, quoted live to your ZIP from the nearest stocking plant - Albertville, AL or Merced, CA. On a tank this size the plant you pull from is the single biggest cost variable, so an Alabama buyer and a California buyer will see very different LTL numbers; the estimator routes your quote to the nearer of the two. Get a real number in seconds with our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 to talk through delivery and offloading. For design-stage reading on high-volume vertical storage, see our fire-water reservoir design guide.
