10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard Dumpster Rental in Kahnawà:ke

In a private driveway, no — and for a reason found nowhere else in Greater Montreal: there is no construction or renovation permit on the territory. The Mohawk Council's management plan says it in black and white, “Construction permits are currently not required on the reserve”. There is simply nothing to file. On the roadway it is another matter: no occupancy regime is published, but obstructing a street is an offence. Call the Council's Public Works at 450 632-5825 before you even consider it, and call us at 514 708-2424.

No. Kahnawà:ke is not a municipality: it is Mohawk territory governed by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke, an elected government, under federal jurisdiction. Quebec's ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation places it outside the list of municipalities, under “Communauté autochtone”, and the MRC de Roussillon counts only eleven, Kahnawà:ke not among them — the management plan sums the situation up in a formula: the territory is within but not part of the MRC. There is thus no town hall, no planning department and no zoning by-law: the laws of Kahnawà:ke are what apply.

No, and the Council writes it twice. Construction, renovation and demolition debris is received at the depot only when the owner did the small job personally; the moment a contractor carries out the work, it is refused, and disposing of it at their own expense falls to them. The management plan even specifies that the depot's bins are reserved for owner-occupants. A professional job site therefore has no local facility to drop anything off: the rented dumpster stands in for what does not exist.

The Council's management plan excludes concrete, brick and cinder blocks, and those materials do not figure in the table that lists, material by material, what the depot receives and where it goes. That is precisely what our single-material dumpsters cover: one for concrete, another for brick-and-mortar masonry, each reserved for its own material alone — any mixing triggers sorting fees. Sorting at the source, as it happens, is a stated objective of the Council: it aims to recycle 70% of construction debris from buildings and infrastructure work by 2028.

Not the way it does elsewhere. The Landfill Policy for Clean Soil of the Kahnawà:ke Landfill Department provides for landfill permits for source-site contractors, who are required to deal with that department directly, and the Sanitary Conditions Law makes landfilling operations subject to a Council permit. Two reservations, in fairness: this is an administrative policy and not a law, and the revision it scheduled for May 2018 was never published. So we do not hold it up to you as a settled rule — we point you to the Landfill Department (450 632-8774) and the environment protection office (450 635-0600) before anything is loaded.

The Council itself describes the village as a dense area “with narrow streets”: manoeuvring the truck counts as much as the dumpster, and the speed limit there is 30 km/h. The 20-yard remains the size that absorbs most renovations, and it takes up about the size of a Dodge Caravan — run the test with the family van. Beware the reflex of going smaller to gain room: a 10-yard is a 20-yard filled halfway, the same footprint on the ground, just lower, so nothing is gained in a short driveway. Keep the 40-yard for demolition and big cleanouts.

The rental runs seven days whatever the size, and stretches by arrangement when the job drags on. The $50 Libération Express credit rewards the exact opposite: make the dumpster available within 48 hours of its delivery — not of your pickup call — and the $50 comes back on your credit card, deducted from any extras or refunded in full if there are none. Past that window you lose nothing else: the seven days keep running. Offer valid during the high season (March to October).