10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Saint-Colomban

Not for the dumpster itself, if 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 permit by-law 3003, nor in construction by-law 602, nor in urban plan 599, nor in fee by-law 1002-2026, and the closed list of certificates of authorization (s. 19) covers no such case. The town's “Demande de permis” page, which offers a form for a car shelter as well as for a henhouse, offers none for a dumpster. The job site, however, needs a permit as soon as it goes beyond minor upkeep repairs of $5,000 — but it is free under $50,000 of work. In doubt? Planning, environment and urbanism department, 450 436-1453, urbanisme@st-colomban.qc.ca, by appointment.

No — and in Saint-Colomban there is not even a procedure to ask. Placing or leaving any object within the right-of-way of a public road is an offence (by-law 1011-2019, s. 2.3.7). The only public-road occupancy procedure requires 45 days' notice, a safety plan and a resolution of municipal council, and it rules our case out expressly: “No application may permit the installation of an object that cannot be moved quickly by hand.” The construction by-law never mentions the public road: it allows job-site equipment “on the sites”. And zoning closes the municipal right-of-way (s. 130). So the spot is in your driveway — that is where we deliver.

Yes, and it is written in plain terms. Section 2.4.7 of quality-of-life by-law 1011-2019 declares a prohibited nuisance “the presence on a vacant or built lot of construction debris such as boards, pipes, electrical equipment, bricks, stones, nails and other similar materials, anywhere other than in a container provided for that purpose”. Sections 2.4.8 and 2.4.3 round it out by prohibiting piles of soil, sand, gravel, stone, wood or metal, and waste of all kinds. And section 11.8 lets the court order the nuisance removed: failing that, the town removes it at the owner's expense, the costs then being “treated as property tax and added to the annual tax bill”.

That is THE Saint-Colomban question, and it gets settled on the phone. By-law 4003-2023 requires a private driveway culvert in HDPE at least 450 mm in diameter — the exact size set by the engineering department — laid on 150 mm of compacted MG-20 crushed stone, and it creates a dip at the threshold: “1.5 metres from the edge of the street, the asphalt or stone of the driveway entrance must sit at least 50 mm below the level of the road shoulder”. Building and maintaining that entrance falls to the owner, and the town may order it rebuilt, failing which it does the work at the owner's expense “without further notice or delay”. So our drivers ask about the age, the condition and, if you know it, the diameter of the culvert before setting the delivery — and on a soaked gravel driveway they will sometimes suggest waiting a day.

For a car trunk, yes — and it even accepts concrete and asphalt, which is rare. For a job site, no. Soil, gravel, sand and contaminated soils are refused; every construction residue is charged by volume; “vehicles or trailers with a tipping mechanism are allowed but unloading must be done manually”; the centre opens only four days out of seven in the summer season, and the town does not publish its winter hours; and there is no other one, since Saint-Colomban residents have no access to the La Rivière-du-Nord county network. Add that both the garbage bin and the bulky waste collection — four times a year — refuse renovation materials, and the arithmetic is quick: a 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³, a 20 yard 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³, while the largest charged category is a 5 m³ trailer.

Yes — and it is rare enough to be worth saying: Saint-Colomban admits contractors and publishes a rate schedule in their name, for “contractors carrying out work on the territory of Saint-Colomban”. Two conditions to know. First, “contractors must present a copy of the construction, renovation, demolition or other permit” — hence the value of applying for the permit, free under $50,000 of work. Second, a vehicle registered “commercial” or bearing a construction company's markings is billed at the contractor rate, resident or not: under fee by-law 1002-2026, $50 for a car trunk and up to $400 for a 5 m³ trailer. To be confirmed at 450 436-1453, extension 6232.

Because forest cover takes up 85% of the municipality's area — the urban plan speaks of its “omnipresence” — and because zoning protects every trunk. Section 1158.2 prohibits “the storage of any material liable to prevent the free circulation of air and water within three (3) metres of a tree trunk”, requires roots, trunks and branches within four metres of the work to be “effectively protected”, and forbids using a tree as a support. Nor is a tree in the way simply cut down: felling requires a certificate for any stem 15 centimetres or more in diameter at ground level, it is prohibited except in eleven listed cases, and where it serves to clear authorized work the owner “must nevertheless demonstrate that there is no alternative to felling”. On a wooded lot the right spot is therefore chosen from the three-metre radius around the trunks and the clearance overhead: that is what our drivers look at first.

Yes, and it is the question to ask us when you book. Saint-Colomban recognizes private streets: zoning defines one as a “privately owned traffic way […] whose layout and opening have been approved by the town”, and the driveway-entrance by-law states that “the street may be public or private” and requires, on a private street, a no-objection form “signed by the owner of the street lot”. What changes: the winter parking bans target, in their own words, “the public roads of the town”. That makes nothing permitted, though — the roadway belongs to someone, and by-law 3005-2023 forbids leaving residual materials on land one neither owns, rents nor occupies. We deliver in your driveway, and we simply ask who maintains the road: the answer decides both the truck's access and who answers for damage to the surface.