Bury water storage tanks in equipment room?

[Ric]

Has anyone ever buried water tanks for ro, ro reclaim, etc. under the concrete floor of their equipment room? There are plastic septic tanks made that would work for that purpose. Why?...to free up equipment room space. Obviously this would be easiest to incorporate into a new build. Thoughts?

 

[MEP001]

I've seen RO reject storage under an equipment room floor - it was a huge tank, at least 10,000 gallons. I'm pretty sure it was put in when the wash was built. They had an upstairs storage area where the main RO tank was, and a second tank in the main ER with a much smaller one for equipment to draw from. I've thought about doing something like that but putting the large tanks on the roof.

 

[Earl Weiss]

Has anyone ever buried water tanks for ro, ro reclaim, etc. under the concrete floor of their equipment room? There are plastic septic tanks made that would work for that purpose. Why?...to free up equipment room space. Obviously this would be easiest to incorporate into a new build. Thoughts?

Everything is great when new. Decades down the raod if there is a collapse, you lose not only the tank, but equipment as well. Somewhere outside might be a better choice.

 

[mac]

Take a look at storing it above the room. It's fairly easy if you have a raised roof.

 

[washnvac]

All my washes have ribbed plastic underground tanks for ro storage. 1500 gallons. Oldest one was built in 1992. No problems so far.

 

[Jeff_L]

I send the "waste" water from my depot free generation upstairs to 55gal drums laying on their sides on a rack all piped together. Then use that softened, de-chlorinated water as my rinse. This way I can see the tanks and use gravity to feed rather than worrying about a pump going bad.

 

[Earl Weiss]

All my washes have ribbed plastic underground tanks for ro storage. 1500 gallons. Oldest one was built in 1992. No problems so far.

Get back to me in another 20 years.

 

[Ric]

Roof mounted tanks are great but you must consider the climate.

 

[washnvac]

Get back to me in another 20 years.

Plan is---it will be someone else's problem in 20 more years

 

[Dean Taylor]

We have designed many reclaim systems with tanks under the equipment room. It is especially popular in northern climates that have deep freeze lines. I do recommend concrete tanks over plastic or fiberglass for this application.

 

[Earl Weiss]

We have designed many reclaim systems with tanks under the equipment room. It is especially popular in northern climates that have deep freeze lines. I do recommend concrete tanks over plastic or fiberglass for this application.

I think this is the correct way to do it.