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

Not for a dumpster placed entirely in the private driveway: the list of the sixteen interventions subject to a certificate of authorization (by-law V657-2017-00, s. 5.1.1) does not mention it, and we word it carefully because this conclusion is drawn from an absence of provision — the town states it nowhere. On the street, the answer is written and it is yes: an authorization from the designated officer is mandatory (by-law V656-2017-00, s. 2.5.3), at a fee of $30, with a security deposit provided for in the fee by-law. A doubt about your case? Planning department, 450 454-3993, extension 9225, or saint-remi.edemandes.com.

Not without paper. In Saint-Rémi, using part of the roadway to set down materials requires an authorization from the designated officer, on the conditions that officer determines (by-law V656-2017-00, s. 2.5.3); the fee is $30 and the town provides for a security deposit for work within the municipal right-of-way — whether it applies to a simple dumpster is checked with the planning department before committing. Damage to the roadway and sidewalk is repaired at the builder's expense, and the builder answers for any accident tied to that occupancy. Watch the grass strip too: the public right-of-way extends “up to the limit of private properties”. The simplest spot remains your own land — that is where we deliver.

For a car trunk, yes: it sits at 284, rue de l'Église, and each address gets 3 free visits per year, of 75 ft³ each. For a job site, the arithmetic is quick: the full annual quota — 225 ft³, about 8.3 cubic yards, by our calculation from Compo-Haut-Richelieu's figures — stays below the volume of a single 10 yard dumpster (270 ft³), and asphalt shingles count as 2 visits: one roof burns the quota in two trips. Once the visits are used up, a trip costs $50 to $200 depending on volume, $100 to $400 for shingles, card only. Add the schedule — Saturdays only in winter, closing time being when unloading must be finished — and the drop-off centre stops being a convenience.

No — and here it is no grey area: “contractors, businesses and shops do not have access to the Saint-Rémi drop-off centre (at any time)”, writes Compo-Haut-Richelieu, which operates the site. The centres open to contractors are in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu — Iberville (825, rue Lucien-Beaudin) or Saint-Luc (950, rue Gaudette) — and in Lacolle (8, rue du Parc-Industriel), at $89 per 75 ft³ for construction materials and double that for asphalt shingles; soil, peat and sand are refused under the same price list. Without a driver's licence and proofs in hand, the contractor rate is in any case applied automatically to any visitor. One dumpster on the job site replaces all those round trips.

Not to the local drop-off centre: “Refused at the Saint-Rémi drop-off centre”, writes the operator Compo-Haut-Richelieu, for asphalt as for concrete, bricks and stones — the municipal page nonetheless lists them among the free visits, and that divergence gets settled at 450 347-0299; in the meantime we follow the operator's list. Elsewhere in the network, those loads are capped at 75 ft³, in 20-inch pieces (Saint-Luc, Lacolle) or 36-inch pieces (Iberville). That is exactly the lane of our single-material dumpsters — concrete, brick and mortar, asphalt, soil-rock-sod: the box fills on site, no breaking pieces down to size, and leaves in a single trip.

No municipal rule we found bans a dumpster in winter: the seasonal prohibitions target road vehicles, not boxes. Saint-Rémi even has its own article in the MRC's harmonized by-law: overnight parking (11 p.m. to 6 a.m., November 15 to April 15) is banned there only on nights when a snow-removal operation is declared, announced from 5 p.m. on the town's website and on a dedicated phone line — the municipal traffic by-law states a season-long ban on its side, and we would rather name the divergence. What really changes is the driveway: the winter car shelter, allowed from October 15 to April 15, must be installed over a parking space or a driveway — the dumpster's exact spot — and snow may go neither onto public property nor within 1.5 m of a fire hydrant. We plan the spot at booking.

Inside Saint-Rémi's urban perimeter, zoning requires every residential parking area to be paved or asphalted within 24 months of the building permit: village driveways are finished surfaces, and that is what the PROTEC-O-SOL system is for — built-in planks that spread the load, part of every box. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Outside the perimeter — 95% of the territory, the rangs and the farms — the requirement falls away and the driveway is often gravel: the topic becomes bearing capacity, and it gets settled on the phone before delivery. Everywhere, our drivers' tip: four flattened cardboard boxes or a thin sheet of plywood on the chosen spot, before the truck arrives.