The Snyder Industries 7500 Gallon HDPE Vertical Liquid Storage Tank is a vertical storage tank built for high-volume water storage where footprint matters: it holds 7,500 gallons inside a 102-inch round footprint and stands 234 inches tall, so the column of water goes up rather than out. Snyder molds it from white polyethylene to the ASTM D1998 standard for upright polyethylene storage tanks, with graduated wall thickness that is thickest at the base where the hydrostatic head is greatest. The shell carries a 1.5 specific gravity rating, which is the spec to confirm against your stored liquid before you commit. For plain water at 8.34 lb/gal, a full tank carries 62,550 lb of water weight, and the 1.5 SG rating means the shell is engineered to carry up to 93,825 lb of rated contents. Those are the numbers that drive your pad and your anchoring, not guesses.
Will it work for your site?
This is a vertical tank, so plan for the full 234-inch height plus fittings when you check clearances, doorways, and overhead obstructions. The footprint is 102.0 x 102.0 inches; the pad has to carry the full 93,825 lb rated load, dead-level and continuous, with no point loading under the floor. Use the Tank Sizing Calculator and the Tank Sizing Guide to match this 7,500-gallon volume to your draw rate and refill schedule before you size the slab. For the engineering behind a tank this tall, the guide on concrete pad sizing for above-ground polyethylene tanks walks the ACI 360R-10 framework, and the wall-thickness piece on where ASTM D1998 sizing logic actually matters explains why HDPE wall thickness is graded down the shell.
Fittings and access
The tank is configured with a flange, an 18-inch PE threaded/vented fitting, a 12 x 23-inch fitting, and a flat-mount fitting location, plus a manway with a 15-inch access opening. That 15-inch manway is sized for cleaning, inspection, and limited entry; confirm it meets your confined-space entry requirements before you rely on it for internal work. Check the inlet, outlet, and vent positions on the technical drawing on this page against your plumbing run before you set the tank, because moving connections on a 234-inch vertical after it is placed is not practical. If you are spec'ing this for fire-water or reserve storage, the fire-water reservoir design guide covers NFPA 22 sizing discipline and cold-climate freeze protection for a polyethylene tank in that role.
The mistake to avoid
The most common error on a tank this size is sizing the pad and anchoring to the water weight instead of the rated load. At 1.5 SG this Snyder shell is rated to 93,825 lb of contents, not the 62,550 lb of plain water, and your foundation has to carry the full rated figure. The other miss is treating the 1.5 SG rating as a license to store anything heavy: it tells you the structural ceiling, but it does not by itself qualify the tank for a given chemistry. Match your liquid's specific gravity to that 1.5 ceiling, and verify wall thickness and freeboard for service that fluctuates in temperature - the Snyder freeboard sizing guide works the thermal-expansion and freeboard math per ASTM D1998. If your service is anything other than ambient water, confirm the fitting and gasket material against your stored liquid, since the threaded and flanged connections and the manway gasket are the wetted parts that fail first on a chemistry mismatch.
This Snyder 7500-gallon vertical HDPE storage tank ships LTL freight from Lincoln, NE, quoted live to your ZIP - get a number in seconds with the Freight Cost Estimator or call 866-418-1777 for help spec'ing fittings, pad, and delivery, or to confirm gasket elastomer and whether a higher-SG or chemical-rated Snyder configuration fits your service. At roughly 19.5 feet tall this vertical loads and unloads standing, so it needs crane or high-reach handling plus vertical clearance on the approach - confirm your site access before you order.
