The Snyder Industries 8750 Gallon HDPE Vertical Liquid Storage Tank is a Lincoln, Nebraska-built bulk water reservoir for sites that need serious volume in a single footprint: a 142-inch diameter body standing 146 inches tall, holding 8,750 gallons of white polyethylene storage. Snyder rates this shell to a 1.9 specific gravity, well above the 1.0 of plain water, so the wall and bottom carry a wide structural margin for fresh-water duty. This is the vertical storage tank to spec when you are sizing for irrigation supply, fire-water reserve, or process water and you want the headroom an oversized SG rating gives you. Because Snyder rates the shell to 1.9 SG, this body is not limited to water - it carries the structural margin to hold denser solutions up to that gravity, so the same tank can be repurposed without re-tanking down the road.
Will it work for your site
Plan around the loaded weight, not the empty shell. Filled with water this HDPE tank carries 72,975 pounds of contents, and Snyder's structural rating to 1.9 SG corresponds to a maximum rated contents weight of 138,652 pounds. Those two numbers do different jobs: the tank arrives essentially empty so your forklift or boom only handles the bare polyethylene shell on delivery day, but the slab and site must be staged for the 72,975-pound filled load before first fill. That filled weight drives your pad - an above-ground polyethylene tank of this size belongs on an engineered concrete pad, and our concrete pad sizing guide walks the ACI 360R-10 framework and the ACI 318 boundary you need to clear before you set 70,000-plus pounds of standing water. The 142.0 x 142.0-inch footprint is what you measure your slab against. Run your volume against draw rate and refill cycle with the Tank Sizing Calculator and the Tank Sizing Guide so you confirm 8,750 gallons is the size that matches your demand.
Fittings and access
This vertical tank is built with flanged outlets and threaded fittings positioned around the body, including an 18-inch PE threaded and vented fitting along with SUMO-style and bulkhead (BH) connections per the drawing layout. Every one of those is a sealed penetration - flanged, bulkhead, and SUMO ports seal on gaskets and torque, not threads alone - so confirm gasket type and the correct bulkhead-fitting gaskets per the technical drawing on this page before you plumb a 146-inch column, since a port that weeps near the base is the last thing you want to find after fill. Top access is through a manway with a 15-inch access opening. That opening is sized for inspection, gauging, and tooling, not body entry, so do not spec it expecting a confined-space man-entry hatch. The exact fitting positions, clock angles, and dimensions are all called out on the technical drawing on this page - check each port location against your plumbing plan before the tank is set, because outlet placement on a body this tall is not something to discover after it is full.
A wall-thickness note worth reading
On a tall HDPE vertical the wall is engineered thickest at the base and tapers upward, and the headspace above the liquid line behaves differently than the wetted wall. Our guide on HDPE tank wall thickness at the vapor-saturated headspace explains the ASTM D1998 sizing logic and why liquid-side inspection alone can miss where failures start. If this tank goes into stored fire-water duty, size your usable volume and cold-climate freeze protection before you fill - our fire-water reservoir design guide covers NFPA 22 sizing discipline, freeboard, and the freeze-protection engineering that cold-climate sites need.
This tank ships LTL freight from the Snyder plant in Lincoln, Nebraska, and freight on a tank this size is quoted live to your delivery ZIP - there is no flat number, because the cost depends on your distance from Lincoln and your site's offload capability. Get your number with the Freight Cost Estimator or call us at 866-418-1777 and we will quote it and walk you through delivery and offload for a tank this large.
