For more than 100 years, Southern Cross Water have been offering water tanks Brisbane residents can put faith in.
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.
Despite many people still delighting in rainfall, due to modern infrastructure, like bitumen and concrete, large amounts of rain can build up, causing flash flooding, which can cause damage to homes and the environment.
Attaching a roof gutter system and a rainwater tank can help reduce the amount of water accumulating from stormwater run-off, and minimise the likelihood of flash flooding.
Unfortunately, as a result of most of Australia’s climate, bushfires are a constant risk in the long, hot summers, and Brisbane is no exception. Despite most of the region’s rains coming in the summer months, the lush grasses and warm days can quickly result in brushfires.
The humid subtropical climate in Brisbane plays a large part in what makes it such an attractive holiday destination, with warm weather from October through to April, punctuated by summer showers from December to March.
For more than half a century, we at Southern Cross have produced top quality steel bolted storage tanks to Australian families and businesses, and all Southern Cross tanks have a 30+ year design life.
As specialists in the servicing, setup, design and manufacture of global water storage systems, we take pride in the design and integrity of our fire tanks.
Over a century ago, the first Southern Cross water tank was manufactured by the Griffiths family, after they had experienced success with their Southern Cross windmills in 1903. This gives Southern Cross unique perspective and experience in handling Australia and Brisbane’s water storage requirements.
There was no way anyone could have predicted the birth of an Australian icon when the Griffiths family observed the very first windmill roll off the Toowoomba Foundry line over a century ago.
When a water tank constructed by one of our competitors at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital suffered structural failure in 2015, the tank ruptured, flooding Kawana Way with approximately two and a half million litres of water, causing damaging flooding, and even sweeping away a family vehicle.
The first aircraft to ever fly the whole way across the Pacific Ocean landed in Brisbane in 1928. The plane, flown by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, flew from California in the United States, and was aptly named “Southern Cross,”