The Snyder Industries 5400 Gallon Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank is built for serious bulk water storage where a smaller tank simply runs out. It holds 5,400 gallons in a 142" x 142" footprint at a 91" overall height, molded in polyethylene with a Natural White finish that lets you read the liquid level through the tank wall. What sets this unit apart is its 1.9 specific gravity rating - the wall is engineered to hold contents up to 1.9 times the density of water, which is unusually heavy-duty for a water tank (most water tanks sit at 1.0 to 1.5). Verify the exact footprint and height against the technical drawing on this page before you commit to a pad layout.
Will this tank work for your site?
Plan around the real numbers before you pour. The footprint is 142.0 x 142.0 inches, so you need a level area of just under 12 feet square plus working clearance. Weight is where large vertical storage tanks catch people off guard: filled with water, this tank carries roughly 45,036 lb of contents, and at its full 1.9 specific gravity rating the contents can reach about 85,568 lb. That load drives your foundation design - a tank this size needs a properly engineered, fully supporting concrete pad, not gravel or a partial ring. Walk through the math with our Tank Sizing Calculator and Tank Sizing Guide, and review Concrete Pad Sizing for Above-Ground Polyethylene Tanks for the ACI 360R-10 framework that governs a pad under a tank of this mass.
Common uses and the higher-SG advantage
At this volume the 5400 gallon vertical works as a fire-water reservoir, a rainwater and stormwater aggregation vessel, an irrigation buffer, and bulk process-water storage. If you are sizing it for private fire protection, read Fire-Water Reservoir Tank Design for Rural and Remote Sites, which covers NFPA 22 sizing discipline and freeze protection. For reuse builds that aggregate grey-water, rainwater, or HVAC condensate, our Industrial Water Reuse Tank Topology guide walks through quality-banded storage trains. The 1.9 SG wall is a real buyer advantage here: the same tank can carry denser fluids than a standard water vessel without stepping up to a chemical-specific tank - pending fitting, gasket, and chemical-compatibility confirmation for whatever you intend to store.
The mistake to avoid
Two errors sink large-tank installs: under-building the base, and assuming a fitting or outlet configuration that may not be there. Fitting, outlet, and lid details are not listed in our spec data for this unit - confirm them from the technical drawing on this page or by phone before you plumb anything, so you never assume a bottom outlet exists. On the foundation, size to the full rated load, not just the water weight, so the pad never becomes the weak link. And treat the 1.9 specific gravity rating as the wall's structural envelope, not a fluid clearance - for plain water it is well within spec, but for anything heavier or chemically active, confirm the correct tank, fittings, and gasket material with our team first. Do not assume the white vertical storage tank you see here is rated for your liquid.
This 5400 gallon Snyder vertical storage tank ships LTL by freight from our Chowchilla, CA plant, quoted live to your ZIP. Because of its size and rated mass, delivery requires liftgate or equipment-assisted offload, and East-Coast or Midwest buyers should plan for higher LTL given the single West-Coast origin - our team will confirm the right accessorial options when we quote. Get a live freight number with our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 to lock in delivery and confirm fit for your application.
