10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

No, and for once the answer is not inferred from a silence: it is printed. The table in section 27 of by-law 857 on permits and certificates, codified as of September 24, 2025, places “waste container” among accessory equipment, in the NONE column — no permit, no certificate. The by-law sets its own reservation in paragraph 4) of that section: the exemption does not relieve you from complying with other by-laws, nor from “enquiring with the competent authority” in case of doubt. The job site, though, often does need a permit: from $5,000 of work, with a mandatory 72 hour notice to the planning department before it starts. In doubt? Planning and environment department, 450 478-0211, urbanisme@villesadp.ca.

Not without a certificate of authorization. The table in section 27 of by-law 857 lists “Use of the public road to place materials and equipment” in the CERTIFICATE column. And the authorization comes bounded: section 67 of construction by-law 859 forbids occupying “more than one third of the width of the roadway”, the applicant answers for all accidents and damage, and section 69 charges the builder for repairs to the pavement, sidewalk or roadway. By-law 3900-3 also forbids leaving a vehicle standing more than 24 hours on a public road or in front of a driveway entrance, and the municipal right-of-way in front of the house is no more available (zoning 860, s. 117). Neither the fee nor the form for this certificate is published: so we announce no amount and no delay — we call the town together at 450 478-0211.

Yes, and that is the Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines particularity. Section 22, paragraph 5) of by-law 857 requires the holder of a building permit — residential, commercial, public or industrial, extensions included — to “install on the site […] a waste container with a minimum capacity of 5.6 cubic metres”. That works out to 7.3 cubic yards: the smallest compliant dumpster is a 10 yard, which holds 7.6 m³. Section 68 of construction by-law 859 repeats it differently: “For any construction or demolition project, the owner or the party carrying out the work must obtain a container to collect construction or demolition debris” — and all site equipment must be removed within 7 days of the end of the work. Two by-laws, the same obligation, and a volume written in plain figures.

The spot is chosen with you, and when the by-law is ambiguous we would rather call than promise. Zoning governs “removable waste containers”: allowed in the side or rear yard, 2 metres from the side and rear lines, 2 metres from the main building and 3 metres from a door, window, balcony, terrace or porch, with access kept clear “at all times and in all seasons”. But it defines that container as a receptacle “that can be lifted and emptied mechanically by a system mounted at the front of the truck”, fitted “at all times” with a lid in the closed position: that is a front-load bin, not an open roll-off body, which Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines zoning does not define anywhere. The consistent reading is that those sections cover the permanent bins of apartment and commercial buildings; the official position belongs to the planning department, 450 478-0211. We ask the question before delivery when your project calls for it.

It is the real question of this territory, and no other town in the county raises it. Outside the village you do not drive into a yard: you cross a ditch on a culvert, whose inside diameter by-law 1052 sets at 380 millimetres (15 inches) minimum. Section 5.2 is blunt: “Any damage to a ditch must be repaired without delay by the person who caused it”, failing which the town does the work at that person's expense; and section 5.1 makes the riparian owner responsible for maintaining the ditch in front of their property. So when you book, we ask whether the driveway crosses a culvert, and how wide it is. When doubt remains, the box goes at the head of the driveway, on firm ground, rather than at the back of the lot: moving a dumpster ten metres costs less than a crushed culvert.

For a car trunk, yes: it is at 111 rue des Entreprises, reserved for residents here and in Terrebonne, on presentation of photo ID showing an address. For a job site, no, and the town writes it itself: “Industries, businesses, contractors and owner-builders are not admitted” and “no heavy vehicle is admitted on the site”. Residents are capped at 5 m³ per year for dry materials, wood, asphalt, branches and stumps: that is 6.5 cubic yards, less than a single 10 yard dumpster. Soil is no longer taken at all, and neither are stone, sand, sod rolls or asphalt shingles. The site opens only three days a week from April to November, two from December to March. The arithmetic is quick: a 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³, a 20 yard 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³.

Two things, a constraint and an advantage. The constraint: the drop-off centre is closed to you, unambiguously, and section 5.2 of by-law 880 states that “anyone wishing to dispose of bulk materials from demolition, construction, renovation or excavation must remove them or have them removed by their own means and at their own expense”. The advantage: fee by-law 1083 grants, in section 5, a credit of 50% of the municipal waste charge to an apartment building, an office building or a commercial or industrial building served by a private container service — and 100% when the container and compactor service covers both garbage removal and recyclable material recovery. The 2026 charge is $268 per dwelling unit and $268 per commercial establishment. Proof is filed with the finance department; we supply it at no charge.

The answer depends which side of town you live on. Inside the urbanization perimeter, the access lane must be surfaced in asphalt, concrete or concrete paver (zoning 860, s. 316): that is exactly what the PROTEC-O-SOL system is for, and it comes with every box — built-in planks that spread the load, nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Our drivers' tip for full protection: four flattened cardboard boxes or a thin sheet of plywood on the chosen spot, before the truck arrives. Outside the perimeter, on the farm ranges, the driveway is gravel or packed earth and the question becomes bearing capacity: we pick firm ground, avoid ruts, and keep the truck clean — by-law 747 makes the offender pay the fine and the real cost of cleaning the roadway. One winter caveat, stated by the town: planks and stones left on the lawn are treated as nuisances, so the protection stays in the driveway.