COMPARISON OF PIONEER WATER TANKS WITH OTHER TANKS

96kl. Tank (20,000 gallons) example including metal cone roof.

FEATURES Concrete Fibreglass Welded Steel Pioneer Water Tanks

Cracking Poor Fair Excellent Excellent
Corrosion Fair Excellent Poor Excellent

Stability in Wind Excellent Poor Excellent Excellent

Movability Poor Poor Poor Excellent
Sun UV
Excellent Poor Excellent Excellent
degradation
Appearance Poor Fair Fair Excellent

Active Soil Poor Poor Poor Excellent

Earthquake Zones Poor Poor Fair Excellent

Installation
Poor Poor Poor Excellent
Remote Areas
Installation Rough
Poor Poor Poor Excellent
Terrain

**Uncoated steel reinforcing.

Advantages of Pioneer Water Tanks

On-Site
Preparation:
● The walls of a Pioneer Water Tank, being profiled, absorb any earth movement and will not distort under load, as a flat wall
tank will. This insures that the panels of a Pioneer Water Tank will not stress, buckle or tear.
● Pioneer Water Tanks have a flexible reinforced Polyethylene liner bottoms that are not ridged, so stored water can follow
the contour of the ground. Therefore no movement or stress is transferred to the main tank structure.
● Pioneer Water Tanks require no special site works or expensive foundations. All you need is a 150mm layer of clean sand.

Earth Movement:

● The unique design and quality assurance engineering to Australian Standards #3902 ensure that the Pioneer Water Tank
is extremely stable. Pioneer Water Tanks are designed to AS1170.4 -2007 Earthquake loads.

Delivery and Site Access:

● A Pioneer Water Tank is light in weight and packs down to a mere 1% of its assembled size. It fits neatly into a
4WD utility 6 x 4 box trailer.
●The exacting standards of manufacture and the ease of transportation (twenty fully-knocked-down tanks can be packed
into a container) ensure the Pioneer Water Tank is a leading contender in the competative international market place.

Assembly Time:
● An average Pioneer Water Tank of 96kl.(20,000 gallons Imp) and roof can be assembled by two people in around eight hours.
Dismantling can take around three hours.
●The demountable features of Pioneer Water Tanks make them ideal for temporary installations.

On Site Labour Skills

● The Pioneer Water Tank can be built by two people with a few basic hand tools. A comprehensive Do-it-yourself
booklet can be supplies if required.
● Pioneer Water Tanks also employs two teams of fully trained installation crew who are available to fly anywhere in the world.
Cost
● The Pioneer Water Tank costs less than concrete, fibreglass or welded steel due to:
●Low capital costs involved by cloning the original design through advanced mass production
techniques.
●No special site works, expensive concrete follows or access roads required. For cyclonic
weather areas wind rated tanks must, however, be bolted around their circumference to a
concrete ring beam.
●Lightweight and compact design making freight inexpensive.
●Quick, low cost installation.

Pioneer Water Tanks have great flexibility of design. Any diameter inlet and outlet flanges can be fitted, and all accessories,
such as pumps, valves, ladders and catchment filters can be supplied.

THE BENEFITS OF THE PIONEER WATER TANK CAN BE SUMMED UP VERY SIMPLY:

● Cost effectiveness
● Speed of delivery and installation
● Flexibility of design.
● Custom designed to any diameter of tank height.
● Approved to Australian Standard AS4020 and USA standard NSF61 for potable water intended
for human consumption.