At Southern Cross we’ve been building and designing squatter and liner water tanks Toowoomba residents can rely on for over a hundred years.
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.
While rain is most welcome in many areas across Queensland, excessive rain in a short period of time can build up on roads and paving, triggering flash flooding, which can endanger dwellings, property, and the local ecosystem.
Unfortunately the long hot summers in Toowoomba leave it, like much of Australia, vulnerable to wide-spread bushfires. Even with the fact that much of Toowoomba’s rainfall comes in the warmer months, this often results in long grasses which ignite easily.
Toowoomba, like much of the Brisbane and Darling Downs surrounds has a sub-tropical climate, with warm, humid summers, and mild to cold winters.
Southern Cross have been supplying the highest quality steel bolted storage tanks to Australians for over 50 years, and all of our 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.
In 1903, the original Southern Cross windmill was manufactured by the Griffiths family at the Toowoomba Foundry, and soon after so was the first Southern Cross water tank, leaving us with unparalleled expertise in taking care of towns like Toowoomba’s water storage needs.
When the Griffiths family formed the Southern Cross brand out of the Toowoomba Foundry, they surely didn’t know that it would go on to become such an iconic Australian brand, still in operation over a century in the future.
In 2015 at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital, a water tank built by one of our rivals suffered a structural failure, triggering the tank to burst, flooding roughly 2.5 million litres of water to flood Kawana Way, causing destruction, and even washing away a family vehicle.
Toowoomba, Australia’s second most populous inland city, has three sister cities; Wanganui in New Zealand, Takatsuki in Japan, and Paju in South Korea.