The Snyder Industries 5100 Gallon Vertical Liquid Storage Tank is a white polyethylene vertical storage tank built for high-volume water and liquid holding where a single large footprint beats a cluster of smaller tanks. It stands 93 inches tall on a 142 x 142 inch base, holds 5,100 gallons, and carries a 1.5 specific gravity rating - so it is built to handle liquids heavier than water without exceeding its structural limit. Already rated to 1.5 SG, the top standard rating, it gives you density headroom for brine, light slurries, or future heavier-than-water service without resizing - confirm chemical resin compatibility separately before any such switch.
Will this tank work for your application?
At 5,100 gallons of plain water, the contents alone weigh roughly 42,534 pounds. Loaded to its full 1.5 specific gravity rating, the tank is built to carry up to about 63,801 pounds of liquid - the number that matters when you are siting a fire-water reservoir, a bulk water buffer, or any heavier-than-water liquid. Spread across the full 142 x 142 inch (20,164 square inch) footprint, that loaded weight works out to roughly 3.16 psi, or about 456 pounds per square foot of average bearing load - a concrete number to hand your pad or slab engineer. Confirm the foundation is rated for it before you commit to a single large vessel. If you are still working out whether one 5,100-gallon tank or several smaller verticals fits your site and refill cadence, the Tank Sizing Calculator and the Tank Sizing Guide walk through the math.
Specifications and siting
This is a vertical storage tank in white, molded from polyethylene with a 1.5 specific gravity rating, 93 inches tall and 142 inches across the base. Fitting and outlet configuration is not listed in this record - call 866-418-1777 to confirm bulkhead, outlet, and lid sizes before you plumb the install, and review the technical drawing on this page for fitting locations, verifying those positions against your manifold and pad layout. White lets you read liquid level by eye against ambient light, which is useful on a tall vessel where a top-mounted gauge is a long climb. For a worked example of how a large vertical tank fits into a private fire-protection stack and NFPA 22 sizing, see our fire-water reservoir tank design guide. If you are scaling up from a smaller vessel, our buyer's guides for the 2000 gallon, 500 gallon, and 300 gallon verticals show how dimensions and fittings change with capacity.
The mistake to avoid
The 1.5 specific gravity rating is a structural ceiling, not a chemical-compatibility statement. It tells you the tank can physically hold liquid up to 1.5 times the density of water - it does not clear it for an aggressive chemical. This record lists the tank as water service, so keep it on water and water-like liquids and confirm resin compatibility separately before any chemical switch. Remember too that compatibility is a system, not just the shell: even on water service, verify that your gasket, fitting, and outlet materials match your liquid and its temperature, not only the polyethylene wall. The other common error on a tank this large is underestimating delivery access - a 142-inch-wide tank needs real clearance for the truck, the offload, and the final set, so measure your gate, drive, and pad approach before it ships.
Freight
Snyder molds this tank at multiple plants (Albertville, AL and California), and it ships LTL freight with the cost quoted live to your ZIP code - the Freight Estimator routes your quote from the origin nearest you, and we never bury freight in the list price. Get an exact number from the Freight Cost Estimator on this page, or call 866-418-1777 and we will quote it for you and confirm offload requirements for a tank this size. List price is before freight; freight is quoted separately to your delivery ZIP.
