The Snyder Industries 5400 Gallon Black Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank is a polyethylene vertical storage tank built for serious bulk-water duty, listed here as SKU 7000400C34. It stands about 7 feet 7 inches tall (91 inches) on a 142 x 142 inch footprint, so plan for a pad of at least 12 x 12 feet (142 inches is 11.8 feet across) and confirm you have the overhead clearance to set it. The black exterior blocks light to discourage algae growth, which makes it a practical pick for long-term outdoor water storage, fire-water reserve, and reuse applications.
Will it work for your job?
This is a 5,400-gallon vertical tank rated to a 1.9 specific gravity, a heavy-duty rating well above plain water (SG 1.0). Filled to the top with water, the contents alone weigh about 45,036 pounds, and the tank is rated to carry up to 85,568 pounds of contents at its full 1.9 SG rating. Those are large, real numbers: design your foundation around them, not around the empty tank weight. The 1.9 SG rating is the buying advantage here. A black heavy-duty vertical built to 1.9 SG carries a heavier wall than a standard 1.0 to 1.5 SG water tank, so it holds up to long-term static water loads and gives you headroom if the tank is ever repurposed for a denser fluid down the road. For an above-ground poly tank this size, the pad is the difference between decades of service and a cracked tank, so work through our guide to concrete pad sizing under the ACI 360R-10 framework before you pour. If you are still settling on capacity, the Tank Sizing Calculator and Tank Sizing Guide help you match gallons to demand.
Sizing it into a system
At 5,400 gallons this is a common workhorse size for rural fire-water reservoirs and industrial water-reuse trains. If this tank is part of a private fire-protection stack, the sizing discipline matters as much as the gallons, and our fire-water reservoir design guide covering NFPA 22 sizing and cold-climate freeze protection walks through how a poly tank fits that system. For grey-water, rainwater, and HVAC condensate aggregation, the industrial water-reuse topology guide covers how quality-banded storage trains are sequenced. This is a single-wall tank; if your site needs secondary containment, the Snyder Captor double-wall freeboard sizing guide covers that separate double-wall line. Fitting configuration (outlet, bulkhead, and lid sizes) is not listed on this page, so confirm the exact fittings and gasket material against the technical drawing on this page or by calling before you order so they match your plumbing tie-in.
Freight and how to order
This tank ships LTL freight from the Snyder plant in Chowchilla, California, the nearest named shipping point for this model. Because it is a California-origin tank, West Coast and Southwest buyers generally see favorable LTL rates, while East Coast destinations should expect longer transit and higher freight, so run your address through our Freight Cost Estimator early for a freight estimate, or call us at 866-418-1777 and we will work it out with you. Freight is quoted live to your ZIP rather than bundled into the list price. The most common mistake on a tank this size is under-building the pad or skipping the SG check: this is a 1.9 SG heavy-duty tank, but always design the foundation to the full rated contents weight and confirm the drawing dimensions and fittings against your site before you order.
