10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Saint-Joseph-du-Lac

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 words “conteneur”, “roll-off”, “autochargeur” and “benne” appear nowhere in permit and certificate by-law 16-2024, construction by-law 17-2024 or nuisance by-law 19-2024, and the closed list of twenty certificates of authorization in by-law 16-2024 covers no such case. The job site, however, often does need a permit: there is no dollar threshold here — all interior or exterior renovation work requires one, except normal upkeep that touches neither foundations, frame nor partitions. In doubt? Planning department, 450 623-1072, extension 225.

In Saint-Joseph-du-Lac it is possible — but only by authorization, and it carries a fee. Construction by-law 17-2024 prohibits placing materials or debris “within the right-of-way of a public road or within a ditch, unless an authorization to use the public domain is issued by the municipality to that effect”, and schedule B-5 of fee by-law 12-2015 sets the “public domain occupancy permit” at $50 per day. It is not a right: the municipality is not obliged to grant it, and the conditions are not published. Add that the nuisance by-law prohibits “any dumping of construction materials” in a public place — public roads being part of that by definition — and that on-street parking is banned from November 15 to April 1. In practice the spot is in your driveway; if the street really is the only option, we call the municipality together at 450 623-1072, extension 225.

As discreetly as possible, and that is not a stylistic precaution. 81.2% of Saint-Joseph-du-Lac is agricultural zone, and that zone is 85.5% occupied — the highest land-occupancy rate in the Deux-Montagnes regional county — and in zones A and ID, zoning holds that “no outdoor storage […] may be authorized in the front yard, in the setback, or be visible from traffic corridors”, except behind a ten-metre vegetated buffer. Along the Route 344 and Chemin Principal corridor, section 4.8.3 adds a two-metre buffer for any storage area. Those sections cover outdoor storage and do not name a dumpster dropped for the length of a job — all the more reason not to gamble: our drivers put the box behind the building line, out of sight of the road, whenever the lot allows.

Yes, and the by-law itself says so. Truck traffic of 4,500 kg and over is prohibited on a list of roughly 76 residential streets in Saint-Joseph-du-Lac (by-law 16-2011, s. 3) — 47^e and 48^e Avenues, Brassard, Brunet, Caron, Charette, Clément, de la Cortland, de la Pommeraie, du Parc, Florence, des Jacinthes, montée Mc Cole, croissant Varin and many more. But section 4 expressly exempts “local delivery”, defined as “picking up or delivering goods”, “providing a service” or “carrying out work”: dropping and retrieving a dumpster at your address falls squarely inside that exception. This is no theoretical detail — it is what lets the truck come to you instead of asking you to haul by hand out to an arterial road.

For a car trunk, yes. For a job site, no, and the arithmetic is the municipality's own. The centre opens only two days a week — Wednesday 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. — caps construction waste at 2 m³ per visit with a yearly quota per address, charges $25 per cubic metre beyond that, and the resident “must unload the materials themselves”. Soil, sand and gravel are refused, as are branches, trunks and stumps. A 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³ and a 20 yard 15.3 m³: filling a 20 yard through the drop-off centre would take eight visits of 2 m³, spread over at least four weeks. And the green bin comes only every three weeks, capped at 75 kg and 1 m³.

No, and for once the two municipal documents agree. The drop-off centre page states that “material from contractors, businesses or industries is not accepted”, and fee by-law 12-2015 repeats it in schedule G-1: “No material from contractors, businesses or industries will be accepted at the drop-off centre.” The service is reserved for residents, on proof of residence. On the collection side, a farm operation or a business is entitled to four garbage bins per address, two free and $100 each thereafter: nothing that absorbs a job site. The dumpster is not a convenience here, it is the only route — all the more so since the nuisance by-law makes a pile of construction material on a lot a prohibited nuisance.

Possibly, and it is worth a call before ordering the box. By-law 16-2024 lists “fill and excavation operations” among the works requiring a certificate of authorization. Its seven exceptions cover the rehabilitation of a contaminated site, public works, provincial authorizations, “moving soil within the same lot”, residential fill done by an owner-occupant, specific permits and the replacement of a foundation drain — hauling soil off the lot is not named. We do not decide in the planning department's place: call 450 623-1072, extension 225, ask whether your volume triggers a certificate, and we deliver the soil-rock-sod dumpster once you have the answer. The certificate is generally valid six months and cannot be renewed.

It is the question we hear most, and the answer depends on which Saint-Joseph you live in. Inside the urbanization perimeter, zoning requires parking surfaces to be “paved, concreted, asphalted or laid in permeable pavers”: that is a finished surface, and 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. Outside the perimeter, along the rangs and the orchards, gravel is still allowed — the rule only requires surfaces to “eliminate any raising of dust and forming of mud” — and there it is the ground's bearing capacity that counts: tell us if the driveway is soaked and the driver will pick his angle. Either way, our drivers' tip for full protection: four flattened cardboard boxes or a thin sheet of plywood on the chosen spot, before the truck arrives.