The Snyder Industries 6000 Gallon Black Vertical Storage Tank is a 6,000-gallon polyethylene vertical tank standing 132 inches tall on a 120 x 120-inch footprint, built to a 1.5 specific gravity rating. Black pigment blocks light penetration to suppress algae growth in stored water, which makes this size a workhorse for bulk water storage, rural fire-water reservoirs, rainwater capture, and industrial process and reuse water. If you are weighing capacity against site space, this is one of the larger single-tank options in the vertical storage line.
Will it work on your site?
Full of water this tank carries roughly 50,040 pounds of contents, and at its 1.5 specific gravity rating it is engineered to hold up to about 75,060 pounds of contents. In plain terms, the pad and your offload equipment have to handle 25 tons of water alone, climbing toward roughly 37.5 tons at the rated ceiling. That headroom is what the 1.5 rating buys you: it is not a license to fill with denser liquid casually, but it confirms the wall structure is built above a plain-water duty cycle. A square 120 x 120-inch footprint with a 132-inch height puts real load into the ground, so the supporting surface has to be level, full-contact, and rated for the loaded condition, not the empty shell. Our guide to concrete pad sizing for above-ground polyethylene tanks walks through the ACI 360R-10 framework so the foundation matches the tank. To check this capacity against your actual demand, run the numbers through our Tank Sizing Calculator or read the Tank Sizing Guide. One procurement note on a tank this size: it stocks at two Snyder plants, Lincoln, NE and Philippi, WV, and which one serves your region materially changes both the freight number and the lead time, so factor plant location into your timeline.
Sizing it into a system
At 6,000 gallons this black vertical tank tends to anchor a storage train rather than stand alone. For private fire protection on rural and remote sites, our fire-water reservoir tank design guide covers NFPA 22 sizing discipline and cold-climate freeze protection that bear directly on a tank this size. If you are aggregating grey water, rainwater, or HVAC condensate, the industrial water reuse tank topology guide shows how quality-banded storage trains sequence around bulk vessels like this one.
The mistake to avoid
The 1.5 specific gravity rating describes the structural duty of the wall, not a clearance to store any heavy chemical. This is a water-service tank: the black color and the rating support water and similar low-hazard liquids, and anything beyond plain water needs the chemistry and the resin confirmed first. Just as important, this listing does not specify a fitting package. Inlet, outlet, manifold, and gasket details are not configured here, so confirm them off the technical drawing on this page or by phone before you commit a plumbing layout, and never assume the freeboard or fittings that suit water carry over to a denser or reactive contents. If you are evaluating anything approaching the 1.5 rating, our Snyder Captor double-wall freeboard guide covers ASTM D1998 thermal-expansion math and the real usable volume you actually get once freeboard is accounted for. Confirm your actual stored-contents weight stays inside the 75,060-pound ceiling, and size the pad for the loaded condition every time.
This tank ships LTL freight, quoted live to your ZIP, from the nearest Snyder plant that stocks it: Lincoln, NE or Philippi, WV. Get a freight number for your address with our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 to talk through site access, offload, and lead time on a tank this size.
