On Jan 13, 7:14*am, Godspeed wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:39:10 -0600, dpb wrote:
Flat bottom or round? *

Flat bottom and top.

Upright/horizontal? *

Upright. About 10 or 12 feet tall and about 8 or 10 feet wide. Cylinder.

Internal access?

Has about a 2-foot hatch on top for access. No ladder inside so I'm not
sure how you get to the bottom (or back up for that matter). I guess a thin
ladder would work.

As the well guy said, you can try but it's likely if it's rusted out in
one spot it's terribly thin in many.

It really "looks" good on the outside. I wonder if it's not just a pipe
leak somewhere on the bottom.

You possibly could simply rotate it 180 and extend life;

I don't think something that big can be moved.

If this is just a residential installation, why such a large tank

Large? I asked the well guy why everyone had 3 or 4 tanks and I only had 2
and he said anything over 10,000 gallons needs special earthquake
foundations so everyone just puts in a set of small 5,000 gallon tanks. So,
5,000 gallons, out here, is small since I can see on google clusters of 3,
4, and 5 tanks all around.

not using a pressure pump? *Could potentially go w/ a much smaller
pressure tank far cheaper.

There is a 3-foot tall blue pressure tank in the well housing that has a
motor that pressurizes the water to about 80 psi (said the well guy). That
pressure tank is about 2 feet wide. Dunno exactly what it's for but it
seems to hold the pressureized water (all the water except the water to the
fire hydrant).