The Snyder Industries 8500 Gallon ASTM Black Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank is a bulk-scale vertical storage tank built for high-volume water and liquid holding. It stands 194 inches tall on a 120 x 120 inch square footprint, molded in black high density linear polyethylene, and carries a 1.9 specific gravity rating - meaning the shell is rated to hold liquids up to 1.9 times the weight of water, or roughly 15.8 pounds per gallon. That rating is the reason a water buyer might still choose this vessel over a plain 1.0 or 1.5 water tank: it covers dense chemical service well beyond water and leaves real structural margin on this 8,500-gallon shell.
Will it work for your site?
Full of water, this vertical storage tank weighs roughly 70,890 pounds, and at its maximum rated contents weight it carries up to 134,691 pounds. Numbers at that scale decide your foundation before anything else: a tank this size needs an engineered, dead-level concrete pad sized for the full load. Our concrete pad sizing guide walks through the ACI 360R-10 framework for above-ground polyethylene tanks, and the Tank Sizing Calculator and Tank Sizing Guide help you confirm the 120-inch footprint and 194-inch height clear your pad and any overhead obstructions. For fire-protection or reservoir duty, the fire-water reservoir design guide covers NFPA 22 sizing discipline for rural and remote sites.
Fittings and configuration
The technical drawing on this page shows this vertical tank configured with a flange, an 18-inch PE threaded/vented fitting, and a 12-inch x 24-inch fitting. The 18-inch vented fitting is your atmospheric vent and manway path - keep it clear so the tank can breathe as it fills and drains. Match the gasket material on the flange and on the 12-inch x 24-inch fitting to your intended contents, and confirm every fitting location against the drawing before you plumb the site. If you are aggregating water from multiple sources into a train of storage, the industrial water reuse tank topology guide covers how to sequence quality-banded storage.
The mistake to avoid
At 194 inches tall and over 35 tons full, the failure mode here is the foundation, not the tank. Do not set an 8,500-gallon vertical on unengineered ground or an undersized pad - settlement or an out-of-level base puts uneven stress on the shell wall. Size the pad for the full 134,691-pound rated load, verify it is dead level, and account for freeboard if your contents are denser than water; our freeboard sizing guide works through ASTM D1998 freeboard math, the same standard behind this tank's ASTM rating. The 1.9 specific gravity rating gives you headroom, but the pad has to carry it.
This Snyder vertical storage tank ships LTL freight from the Snyder plant in Lincoln, NE, quoted live to your ZIP. A 194-inch-tall, 120-inch-wide load is an oversize delivery, so check overhead clearance and craning at the receiving end before it arrives. Get a freight rate with our Freight Cost Estimator, or call 866-418-1777 to coordinate equipment for a tank this size. Listed before freight; freight is quoted separately to your ZIP.
