Dumpster rental in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

Frequently asked questions — Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

Do I need a permit to place a dumpster 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.

Can I have the dumpster placed on the street in front of my house?

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.

Is it true the by-law requires a dumpster, and a minimum size?

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.

Where exactly can the dumpster go on my lot?

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.

My driveway crosses a culvert: is that a problem?

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.

Can the Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines drop-off centre replace a dumpster?

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.

I am a contractor or property manager: what changes here?

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.

Will the dumpster damage my driveway?

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.

And elsewhere? We checked the permit rule in every city we serve, by-law in hand — because it is never the same from one city to the next.

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Areas we serve in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

We deliver to every neighbourhood in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines — and we know the area.

Village core (centre-ville)Urban sectorNorth suburban sectorSouth suburban sectorChampêtre sector (Golf le Champêtre)Champêtre sector (town entrance)Industrial sectorDomaine NormandieBoulevard Sainte-Anne (Route 335)5ᵉ AvenueRang Sainte-ClaireRang LepageRang du Trait-CarréMontée MorelMontée LaraméeMontée GagnonChemin de la Traverse

What our drivers check before the box comes down

Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines covers 48% of the Thérèse-De Blainville regional county for 15,905 residents, or 162.9 people per square kilometre, and holds 81% of the county's farm zone. Our drivers therefore face two different grounds inside one town. Inside the urbanization perimeter, zoning requires the access lane to be surfaced in asphalt, concrete or concrete paver: the question becomes protecting that surface. Outside the perimeter, on the farm ranges, that obligation does not apply and the driveway is gravel or packed earth: the question becomes bearing capacity, ruts, and the mud a truck could carry back onto the road.

Three things get settled on the phone rather than in the driveway: width, the culvert and the room. A residential access lane here runs from 3 to 9 metres wide; for a single-family home it may reach 50% of the lot width, never below 3.5 metres nor above 9 metres, and only one lane is allowed when the front lot line is under 40 metres. A 20 yard box, roughly the size of a Dodge Caravan, fits without trapping the car when the spot is chosen ahead. The 10 yard equals a 20 yard filled halfway: same footprint, simply lower.

The second thing is what sets Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines apart from its six county neighbours: outside the village you do not drive into a yard, you cross a ditch on a culvert. By-law 1052 sets its inside diameter at 380 millimetres (15 inches) minimum, forbids piping a ditch except for specific projects approved by council, and in the farm zone allows only a 30 metre piped length, in front of the house. Above all, 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. So the question we ask when you book is not « do you have room? », it is « does your driveway cross a culvert, and how wide is it? ». In doubt, the box goes at the head of the driveway, on firm ground, rather than at the back of the lot.

The third is the surface. Where the driveway is paved, the PROTEC-O-SOL system 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. One last marker, published by the town without saying so: zoning names fourteen streets of the old village — 2^e, 3^e, 4^e and 5^e Avenue, Boulevard Sainte-Anne, rues Auger, Beaupré, Rolland, Saint-Édouard, Saint-Isidore, Saint-Joseph, Limoges and des Cèdres, Terrasse Deschamps — where the setback required for a temporary car shelter drops from 1.50 metre to 0.61 metre. You do not cut a setback by more than half for fun: these are the streets with the shortest driveways, and the ones where two minutes on the phone are worth the trip.

Town of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, zoning by-law 860 (s. 261, 310, 312, 313, 316 and 317), by-law 1052 on culverts and ditches (s. 2.2, 2.6, 4.4, 5.1 and 5.2) and the « Territoire, profil et données » page; Thérèse-De Blainville regional county, « Zone agricole » page — consulted August 20, 2026.

Contractors and property managers in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

Here, a contractor's first question is not whether the dumpster is allowed: it is not to forget it. 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 ». Five point six cubic metres is 7.3 cubic yards: the smallest compliant dumpster is a 10 yard, which holds 7.6. Construction by-law 859 says it again in section 68: « 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 requires all site equipment to be removed within 7 days of the end of the work. Two by-laws, the same obligation, and a volume written in plain figures.

Our second constraint is a road one, and unusually clear-cut. By-law 3901, approved by the Ministère des Transports on November 27, 2012, bans trucks of 4,500 kg and over from every road in town except nine: 5^e Avenue, Rang Sainte-Claire, Montée Laramée, Rang du Trait-Carré from Montée Laramée to the Mirabel boundary, Montée Morel, Rang Lepage, Chemin de la Traverse, Boulevard des Entreprises and Rue des Menuisiers. A delivery escapes the ban only through the « local delivery » exemption of section 4 — picking up or delivering goods, providing a service, carrying out work. That means the most direct route from one of the nine authorized axes, no detour, no through traffic on residential streets: the discipline of a carrier who knows the territory, and one a truck from far away ignores. Add that the town has no direct interface with the highway network — you reach it by Route 335 from Bois-des-Filion, never by an off-ramp — and you have the reason a delivery is planned here more than elsewhere.

For a property manager, the town has set up a lever few people know about. 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: the private service does not add to the municipal bill, it replaces part or all of it. Proof is filed with the finance department, and we supply it at no charge. The rest follows: 40 yard dumpsters for job sites that move, photo tracking of every delivery, SMS notifications on drop-off and pick-up, flexible pick-up as the work progresses. One last detail that matters in a town half of which is farmland: by-law 747 makes the offender pay the fine and the real cost of cleaning when they soil public property, and zoning lets the planning department have the streets cleaned at the owner's expense. The truck that leaves clean is the one that costs nothing more. The 50 $ Libération Express credit rewards fast job sites: it applies when the dumpster is freed up within 48 hours of delivery, during the March-to-October high season.

Town of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, by-laws 857 (s. 22), 859 (s. 68), 747 (s. 16 and 41), zoning 860 (s. 1335), 1083 (s. 3 and 5) and 3901 (s. 2, 3, 4 and schedule A); Thérèse-De Blainville regional county, « Zone agricole » page — consulted August 20, 2026.

In winter, the street's snow ends up on your lot

Elsewhere, you wonder whether the street will stay clear. Here the town answers in advance, and not the way you would expect: « From November 15 to April 15, overnight parking between midnight and 7 a.m. is allowed throughout the town », except on streets with a permanent ban and except when snow clearing operations are declared. The declaration is publicized by 4 p.m. at the latest, at least eight hours before the ban, on the town website, on its Facebook page and by phone message at 438 315-4677; by-law 3900-3 makes it the driver's responsibility to check, and the town warns on its « Déneigement » page that a ban period « could also last a few days ». None of this changes anything for the dumpster — the public road requires a certificate of authorization in every season — but it changes everything for your own vehicle and for planning a late-afternoon delivery.

What really changes is where the snow goes. The town writes it in its own FAQ: « To limit trucking snow away and reduce environmental impact, the town uses a method that consists of blowing snow onto private lots adjoining streets or sidewalks. » The front strip of your lot is therefore the destination of the street's snow, and a dumpster left near the front line in January gets it. Another ground marker, from the same page: in the rural sector, snow clearing equipment runs between 35 and 42 km/h, against 8 to 22 km/h in town. The farm range and the village street do not live the same winter; neither does a dumpster.

The driveway, meanwhile, is shared. A temporary car shelter is allowed from October 15 to April 15, only on the parking area or its access lane, 1.50 metre from the sidewalk, curb or asphalt edge — 0.61 metre on fourteen old-village streets —, 0.60 metre from a side or rear line, 1.50 metre from a fire hydrant, no taller than 3.30 metres and no more than 75 m² on the ground. It stands exactly where the dumpster would go, six months a year. Add the snow from your own driveway, which by-law 747 forbids dumping on the street or on a neighbour's lot, snowbanks that may not exceed 2.5 metres at the curb, and the bins, to be placed at least one metre from the road and put out on collection day itself in winter. One town warning is worth repeating: wooden planks and stones left on the lawn to hold down protective tarps are treated as nuisances, and damage they cause to snow clearing equipment can be charged back to the resident. So our protection planks stay in the driveway, never on the front strip — and the dumpster's spot is chosen when you book, not in the snow.

Town of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, « Déneigement » and « Collectes » pages, by-laws 3900-3 (s. 5.2.1 to 5.2.4), 747 (s. 25.1 and 25.2), 986 (s. 10 and 12), 880 (s. 3.11) and zoning 860 (s. 258 to 264) — consulted August 20, 2026.

Why the drop-off centre is not enough in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines has its own drop-off centre, at 111 rue des Entreprises. The Thérèse-De Blainville regional county, which groups seven municipalities, runs no regional facility: each town makes its own arrangement, alone or with a neighbour. This one is open « only to its own residents and to those of the Town of Terrebonne », under an agreement, on presentation of photo ID showing an address. For a car trunk, it is the right address. Here is where the door closes.

The rule	What it means for a job site
Contractors and owner-builders refused	« Industries, businesses, contractors and owner-builders are not admitted », and « no heavy vehicle is admitted on the site »
5 m³ a year, everything included	Dry materials, wood, asphalt, branches and stumps: five cubic metres per year. That is 6.5 cubic yards — less than a single 10 yard dumpster
Soil is no longer taken	Service ended after contaminated soil was dropped off; stone, sand and sod rolls are refused as well
Asphalt shingles refused	Asphalt counts toward the 5 m³ quota; shingles do not go through at all
Concrete and brick pass, stone does not	« Aggregates (concrete blocks, bricks, etc.) » are accepted within the quota, but « stone, sand » are refused — the line is not defined: confirm at 450 478-0211, extension 3050
Three days out of seven in summer, two in winter	April to November: Tuesday 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday 12 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. December to March: Thursday and Saturday only

At the curb, the fallback is thinner still. The garbage bin refuses « all construction, demolition or renovation debris or materials, residential, commercial or industrial » (by-law 880, s. 4.2 e). The bulky waste collection, once a month, takes only one cubic metre of construction residue per collection, in pieces of one metre at most, and refuses by name asphalt, shingles, concrete, wood, brick, cement, slabs, drywall, rock, sand, soil, sod and glass, along with « all materials from demolition, construction or renovation carried out by contractors »; from October to March it runs by registration only, before 8 a.m. on the Monday a week ahead, at 450 478-0211, extension 3020. One nuance we would rather state: by-law 880 for its part tolerates up to 4 cubic metres and 125 kg of renovation material done by the occupant, a figure the page published today does not repeat — the contradiction is reported here, not settled. What remains is section 5.2 of that same by-law, perfectly clear: « 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. » That is precisely what a dumpster does.

Town of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, « Écocentre » page and the drop-off centre practical guide (last updated August 29, 2025), « Collectes » page, by-law 880 on collections (s. 1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.4 and 5.2); Thérèse-De Blainville regional county, « Gestion des matières résiduelles » page — consulted August 20, 2026. The town publishes its by-laws as administrative codifications, warning that « only the original by-laws, as countersigned by the clerk, have legal value ».

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10 cubic yards

20 cubic yards

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Not sure which size to pick?

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Our services in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

Why Megabac?

Your driveway is protected

A tip from our drivers, for total protection

How much does it cost?

Included in your rental

What can be added

Choose the right type of dumpster

Dry materials (mixed)

Soil, rocks and sod only

Concrete only

Bricks and mortar only

Asphalt only

Strictly refused, in every dumpster

Frequently asked questions — Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

Areas we serve in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

What our drivers check before the box comes down

Contractors and property managers in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

In winter, the street's snow ends up on your lot

Why the drop-off centre is not enough in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines

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