FWIW, working on replacing an existing 500,000 gallon fabric tank. Cost will be around $250,000 without significant site work.
Todd G Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT www.fpdc.com 860-535-2080 (ofc) > On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:05 PM, Bobby Gillett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have designed a view jobs with 200,000 gallon tanks in the past. At that > time, Travis' estimate was real close. I have had a customer (large retail > distributor) that had enough water from the local municipality with a fire > pump and later added a second pump and a water storage tank for back up. That > tank was approximately 200,000 gallons as well. It's not unheard of and > sometimes where they build it is necessary. > > Bobby Gillett > Living Water Fire Protection > Cantonment, FL > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 27, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Travis Mack <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Used to budget tanks at $1 per gallon. So your price estimate way low. That >> was about 10 years ago. >> >> Look up tire storage. Rolled paper. Flammables. Foam systems. Big water >> demands. Supply IFC fire flows and easily hit that size. >> >> Travis Mack, SET >> MFP Design, LLC >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Aug 27, 2014, at 5:58 PM, Brad Casterline <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Do any of you who have to pin a disclaimer to what you think happen to know >>> if there will be some more thought given to this subject? I've never been >>> anything other than a designer so I have no idea what a half a million >>> gallon above ground water storage tank costs but I bet it's at least 50 >>> grand. Why? How can an automatic system require so much? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sprinklerforum mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Sprinklerforum mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
