Many Queensland residents still count on a Southern Cross water tank to help meet their water storage needs, because they understand their water storage needs, and integrity.
With a range of tank sizes from 26kL – 600kL in our rural tanks, and from 12kL – 1900kL in our commercial tanks (with sizes outside this range available on request) you can rest assured that we have the right size tank to suit your water storage needs.
Installing a roof gutter system and a rainwater tank can help in reducing the amount of water building up from stormwater run-off, and lessen the risk of flash flooding.
Sadly the long hot summers in Blackwater leave it, like much of Australia, prone to widespread bushfires. Despite the fact that much of Blackwater’s limited rainfall comes in the warmer months, this often leads to long grasses which ignite easily.
Blackwater has what is referred to as a local steppe or mid-latitude steppe climate, with low levels of rainfall throughout the year and varied temperatures.
For over fifty years, Southern Cross has been providing high quality steel bolted storage tanks to Australians, and all of our tanks have a 30+ year design life.
At Southern Cross we pride ourselves in the design and integrity of our mining tanks. We are experts in the design, fabrication, installation and servicing of water storage systems for the Australian mining industry.
In 1903, the original Southern Cross windmill was manufactured by the Griffiths family at the Toowoomba Foundry, and soon shortly after so was the first Southern Cross water tank, leaving us with unparalleled experience in dealing with towns like Blackwater’s water storage needs.
There was no way anyone could have predicted the birth of an Australian icon when the Griffiths family watched the very first windmill roll off the Toowoomba Foundry line over a century ago.
In 2015 at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital, a water tank built by one of our competitors suffered a structural failure, causing the tank to burst, flooding approximately 2.5 million litres of water to flood Kawana Way, causing destruction, and even washing away a family car.