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

Not for the dumpster itself, if it stays entirely on your land. We word it carefully because the conclusion comes from an absence of provision: the word “conteneur” appears neither in by-law 2023-218 on permits and certificates, nor in construction by-law 2023-217, nor in the architectural integration by-law, nor in the demolition by-law, nor in the traffic by-law, nor in the nuisance by-law — and the closed list of certificates of authorization covers no such case. Fee by-law 2025-244 sets no charge either. The job site, though, often does need a certificate: from $10,000 of interior work not affecting the structure, and regardless of cost for exterior cladding, an architectural component, or electrical, plumbing or heating systems. In doubt? Planning, permits and inspection department, 450 672-4444.

Saint-Lambert is one of the few towns in the region with a procedure that names the dumpster: its “Demande de permis ou de certificats” page requires a temporary public-domain occupancy certificate for works to “install […] containers […] on the public roadway”. The 2026 rate is $100 per day, the application is a signed form sent to both genie@saint-lambert.ca and urbanisme@saint-lambert.ca, and the town asks you to “allow 10 business days before the obstruction begins”. Two reservations, which we would rather state: the same page adds that “deposits in the street are not authorized” and that you may not “under any condition” place equipment or debris on the public roadway, and the rate carries the note “storage of bulk materials is not authorized”. We do not decide in the town's place: call 450 672-4444 before counting on the street. By default, we deliver in the driveway.

Yes, and it is written in plain terms. Section 12.4 of waste management by-law 2021-189 states that “during construction, extension or renovation work on a building, the owner and the occupant must store the waste, including construction, renovation and demolition materials, in one or more containers provided for that purpose and dispose of it themselves and at their own expense”. Section 15.3 rounds it out by putting debris, soil, concrete and rock on the owner, and the nuisance by-law makes demolition debris left on a lot a prohibited nuisance. In Saint-Lambert the dumpster is therefore not a convenience: it is the written way a residential job site must handle its debris.

Because the town has put a number on the question. The construction by-law requires, before any work begins, an optimal protection zone around every tree, whose radius is calculated: trunk diameter × 12. The by-law gives its own example — “a tree 0.25 metre in diameter must have a 3 metre protection zone around it. This is the radius in which no traffic is allowed during the work” — and requires a fence at least 1.5 m high to mark it out. Zoning goes further: “placing on the ground objects or materials liable to obstruct the supply of water, air or nutrients to a tree's roots” is deemed to be felling, and therefore prohibited without a certificate. Add that the town inventories 13,600 public trees, which belong to it and which it is prohibited to prune or have felled, and you see why our drivers pick the spot before setting out.

For a car trunk, yes. Saint-Lambert has no municipal drop-off centre: section 6 of by-law 2021-189 sends its residents free of charge to the agglomeration's sites — Marie-Victorin and Payer in Longueuil, Saint-Bruno in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville — and concrete, brick, rock, asphalt and uncontaminated soil are accepted there. For a job site, no. Each address gets 12 free visits a year, the volume must stay under 2.5 m³ per visit, the vehicle may not exceed 7.5 m including the trailer, no tipping trailer is admitted and “materials must be unloaded manually by the citizen”. Add that Marie-Victorin closes Monday and Tuesday from November 1 to March 31, 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 — an address's whole yearly quota for a single 40 yard box.

By-law 2021-189 settles it for you, and it concerns a good share of the town: according to the urban plan, 37% of local dwellings sit in buildings under five storeys and 20% in buildings over five storeys (2016 census data). From 10 residential occupancy units up, a container becomes mandatory for garbage, recyclables and organics, and “where the volume of waste generated requires more than 15 bins, the owner is obliged to obtain containers”. A building with more than 9 units may opt out of municipal collection on proof of private contracts — it must then file every year, before March 1, a copy of its contract and a tonnage declaration. Two limits worth knowing: a container with its contents may not exceed 1,800 kg, and the agglomeration's drop-off centres accept no commercial waste.

Within the window Saint-Lambert's by-laws leave open, and it is narrower than elsewhere. Construction work and the use of noisy tools are prohibited all day Sunday and between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Monday to Saturday, and the nuisance by-law expressly names “loading or unloading a truck […] of rubble, pipe, stone, gravel, sand, cement, concrete mixes, construction materials” among the operations prohibited between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Noise is also capped at 50 decibels at all times at the property line. Our drivers likewise apply the municipal three-minute idling rule and drive at 30 km/h, the limit across the whole territory except on five arteries. In short: we set the window with you, on a weekday or Saturday daytime.

It is the question we hear most in Saint-Lambert, because zoning here requires driving lanes and parking spaces to be “paved, asphalted, concreted or covered with cellular pavers” — and because a residential curb cut is only 2.5 m to 6 m wide. The box therefore lands on a finished surface, in a measured space. 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.