Ground storage tank location and foundation
A storage tank is a container, usually liquids sometimes for compressed gases (gas tank).The term can be used for reservoirs (artificial lakes and ponds) and for manufactured containers. Storage tanks operate under no (or very little) pressure, distinguishing them from pressure vessels. Storage tanks are
often cylindrical in shape perpendicular to the ground with flat bottoms and fixed or floating roof.
There are usually many environmental regulations to the design of storage tanks, often depending on the natural of the fluid contained within. Above ground storage tanks (AST) differ from underground (UST)storage in the kinds of regulation.
That are applied. Reservoirs can be covered in which case they may be called covered or underground storage tanks or reservoirs.
Covered water tanks are common in urban areas. Storage tanks are available in many shapes: vertical and horizontal cylindrical:
open top and :flat bottom, slope bottom and dish bottom. Large tanks and to be vertical cylindrical, or to have rounded corners transition from vertical side well to bottom profile, to easier withstand hydraulic hydrostatically induced pressure of contained liquid. Most container tanks for handing during transportation are designed to handle varying degrees of pressure.