10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Baie-D’Urfé

Yes — and that is what sets Baie-D’Urfé apart from almost every town we serve. By-law 1109 on the issuing of permits and certificates lists at section 6.1.1 the work requiring a certificate of authorization, and its paragraph 15 covers “installing a container, a pods or any other temporary construction or installation” — the French text, which prevails, uses the word conteneur. The planning department's “Certificats” page says the same in its own words — “Pods, Container etc.” — the fee is $50, and a certificate issued for a temporary PODS-type container “is valid for a maximum period of one (1) month”, against twelve months for the others. Zoning adds that “temporary PODS-type containers are prohibited, except where they are the subject of a specific authorization by temporary permit”. The town issues the certificate and judges your case: call before you set the delivery date, all the more so since by-law 1109 recalls “the obligation, in case of doubt, to enquire with the competent authority”. Planning department: 514 457-3321, info-urb@baie-durfe.qc.ca.

No. Two official town pages publish the same rule: “the by-law prohibits at all times parking for more than 4 consecutive hours on the town's streets”, under section 6.3 of the traffic by-law. The truck may stop long enough to set the box down or pick it up — the same section allows trucks on a public road “unless they are continuously being used for loading or unloading” — but the box does not stay there. Add the ban on placing any material or debris within a public road right-of-way without the town's authorization (by-law 1112, s. 2.9.3) and the ban on dumping construction materials in a ditch, on a vacant lot or on public property (by-law 969, s. 29, $200 to $400). So the spot is in your driveway: that is where we deliver.

That is the number one question in Baie-D’Urfé, because the town has no curbs but open ditches, and “maintenance of open ditches and private driveway culverts is the responsibility of the owners”. The construction by-law requires that “culverts must have sufficient strength to bear the weight of the vehicles that will use them to reach the land served” — minimum diameter 30 cm, minimum stiffness 320 kPa in high-density polyethylene. A loaded truck is the heaviest vehicle that will ever cross that pipe, and rebuilding it is at the owner's expense. We talk it through at booking: depending on the culvert's age and condition, we choose where the truck bears its weight, or we set the box down before the ditch. And during the work nothing goes into the ditch: the by-law prohibits it, and drainage must not be interrupted.

Because most of the residential sector has no sanitary sewer: “the residential part of Baie-D’Urfé developed with a water supply network but, for the most part, without sanitary sewer service”, says the urban plan — which is also what imposed the town's large lots. The septic installation guide requires access covers to be “accessible at all times” and “never obstructed or buried”, under a fine the town puts between $1,000 and $100,000, and warns that “in an emergency, the town may request that your septic tank be pumped, without notice”. A full dumpster on a cover blocks that access; on the leaching field, it compacts the treatment element. If you do not know where they are, you are not alone: the town admits the plan may not exist in its records and refers you to a land surveyor. Environment Division: 514 457-5339.

For a small load, yes. For a job site, no — and the town says so itself. The bulky waste collection does accept construction residues (brick, mortar, stone, soil, asphalt, concrete, asphalt shingles, lumber, ceramic, gypsum, melamine, flat glass), but “the number of items is limited to TEN per household”, no item may exceed 100 kg or 1.8 m x 1.2 m, and the collection runs only on the second Monday of the month, from mid-April to mid-November. The special collection, on call on Mondays with three days' notice at 514 457-2877, costs a minimum of $70.00 per hour by truck under the fee by-law. The municipal FAQ concludes: “For large renovation projects, renting a waste dumpster is recommended.”

Baie-D’Urfé has no drop-off centre; the two nearest are the agglomeration's, in Saint-Laurent (3535 rue Sartelon) and LaSalle (7272 rue Saint-Patrick), at the other end of the island. A resident gets 12 m³ free per year, then pays $31 per m³; a construction company pays $31 per m³ from the first cubic metre. Everything is unloaded by hand: “no mechanical means (e.g. a tipping body) may be used” and “drop-off centre staff do not help with unloading”. The arithmetic is quick: a 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³, a 20 yard 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³ — a single 20 yard box exceeds a resident's whole annual allowance. Add that both centres are closed on Mondays, and on Sundays too from October 15 to April 14.

Two municipal boundaries to know, and one offer on our side. Installing a container requires a certificate of authorization here (by-law 1109, s. 6.1.1, para. 15), and its life is capped: “any certificate of authorization issued for a temporary PODS-type container is valid for a maximum period of one (1) month” (by-law 1109, s. 6.4.1), against twelve months for other certificates. And zoning frames the storage of job-site materials: it “may begin at the earliest 7 days before construction work starts” and must be removed “within the 3 days following the end” of the work (by-law 1110, s. 5.2.2). On our side, the $50 Libération Express credit rewards the opposite: it applies when the dumpster is freed up within 48 hours of delivery, during the March-to-October high season. Plan for the delay: the town has 30 days from receipt of the last document, and recommends allowing 30 working days in high season.

In Baie-D’Urfé driveways are hard-surfaced by by-law: “every curb cut must be covered with asphalt, concrete, concrete pavers, stone pavers or another hard-surfaced aggregate covering”. Every one of our dumpsters is delivered with the PROTEC-O-SOL system, built-in planks that spread the load and protect the surface. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Our drivers' tip for full protection: lay four flattened cardboard boxes, or a thin sheet of plywood, on the chosen spot before the truck arrives. One more reason to bother: redoing an impermeable surface of 50 m² or more requires a certificate of authorization from the town.