10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Richelieu

Not for the dumpster itself, when it sits entirely on your land. We word it carefully because the conclusion comes from an absence of provision: the word “conteneur” appears neither in the nuisance by-law, nor in the traffic by-law, nor in the winter parking by-law, nor in the 2026 fee by-law, and the closed list of certificates of authorization in the zoning by-law covers no such case. On the street, however, the answer is yes, and the procedure exists: by-law 22-R-252 names the construction-site container and subjects it to a temporary occupancy authorization. The job site often does need a certificate: from $1,000 of repair work. In doubt? Town of Richelieu, 450 658-1157.

In Richelieu this is a door with a handle. By-law 22-R-252 provides that a temporary authorization to occupy public property covers “the placement and use of equipment, containers, scaffolding, fencing and temporary shelters for a construction site”. The request is made in writing to the public works department, on the form appended to the by-law, sent to info@ville.richelieu.qc.ca; it is granted if the obstruction is not likely “to endanger the life or safety of persons and property”. No rate is published for this authorization. Without it, leaving materials on public property is a nuisance carrying a minimum fine of $1,000 for an individual. And the grassed strip in front of the house is part of public property: you mow it, you do not occupy it. For a plain clear-out with no work, we promise nothing — we call the town with you.

No, and it is written in plain terms. By-law 22-R-254 declares a prohibited nuisance the act of leaving on a property “demolition debris, construction materials, pieces of asphalt or concrete, scrap metal, waste”, and the next section covers “one or more piles of soil, gravel, sand or crushed stone”. Bulky residue not covered by collection may not stay outside more than 48 hours. An offence lasting more than one day constitutes a fresh offence each day. In Richelieu the by-law does not require a dumpster by name — but it makes illegal everything a dumpster replaces.

For a car trunk it is excellent, and it accepts what many drop-off centres refuse: concrete, asphalt, brick, clean soil, gravel, shingles, wood, drywall. For a job site, no. There is none in Richelieu — the two are in Marieville and Saint-Césaire; visits with those materials are counted, six free per year per address, then $40 each; one visit is worth “a volume equivalent to a 4 foot × 8 foot × 16 inch high trailer or less”, roughly 1.2 m³; vehicles of 4,500 kg and up are banned; any tipping mechanism is prohibited and “the resident is solely responsible for unloading”. The arithmetic is quick: the six free visits amount to about 7.25 m³, less than a single 10 yard box, which holds 7.6. A 20 yard holds 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³.

No, and it is in fact the most common surface here: zoning expressly allows lanes and parking areas to be surfaced with “asphalt, gravel or masonry or granular materials”. The risk simply changes nature — on gravel, a loaded box sinks and digs ruts before it marks anything, especially during the spring thaw. Every one of our dumpsters arrives with the PROTEC-O-SOL system, built-in planks that spread the load; nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Tell us the lane width on the phone: it is 7.6 metres at most in Richelieu, with a strip of at least 0.6 metre kept non-drivable along the neighbour's line, and that decides the size as much as the volume of debris does.

On your own land, yes — provided the room was planned, because a Richelieu driveway is crowded six months a year. A temporary car shelter is allowed from October 15 to April 15, one per lot, and zoning requires it to be “located in the parking access lane”: exactly where the box would go. Snow may not be thrown into a public place, and the owner “is presumed to have allowed” the dumping done by their snow contractor. On the street, the ban runs from December 1 to March 31, between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. on any public road, and it “takes precedence over any sign authorizing parking”: it lifts only through a lifting of the ban announced no later than 5 p.m., to be checked every day on the Info-stationnement line, 450 572-9000.

They settle it for you. The Rouville regional county's by-law makes garbage collection with a container mandatory for an apartment building of six units or more, and recycling collection with a container mandatory at twelve units or more, mixed buildings included. Each occupancy unit is limited “at each collection to 720 litres of garbage placed in a maximum of two eligible containers”, six bins per building at most, and “excess containers are not collected”. A commercial, industrial or institutional occupant may request “an additional or alternative service by way of containers of various sizes”. Two field reminders: buildings of three storeys or more, or nine dwellings or more, must keep their priority emergency access lanes “free of any obstruction”, and the $50 Libération Express credit applies when the dumpster is freed up within 48 hours of delivery, from March to October.