10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Vaudreuil-Dorion

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 list of certificates of authorization in by-law 1871 is closed — 28 cases — and none covers placing a temporary dumpster; fee by-law 1709 sets no charge for one; and the word “conteneur” appears neither in nuisance by-law 1863 nor in parking by-law 1806. On the street it is the opposite: a public domain occupancy permit exists, and it names containers. As for the job site, it often needs its own certificate: from $15,000 for interior work, or regardless of cost as soon as the structure is touched. In doubt? Permits and inspections division, 450 455-3371.

Yes, but with a permit, and it is applied for in advance. By-law 1825 prohibits occupying the public domain without authorization (s. 6), and its section 25 expressly names “the placing of equipment, containers, scaffolding, site fencing” among what the temporary occupancy permit covers. Careful: the public domain includes “the excess right-of-way of the public road”, meaning the part situated “between the edge of the roadway or the sidewalk and the boundary of the abutting properties” — the strip of grass in front of the house is part of it. The rate is in schedule 18 of by-law 1709: $50 base, plus daily charges that depend on the area occupied and the width of street obstructed, part of a day counting as a full day. We publish no total: the exact calculation is confirmed with the town, at 450 455-3371.

Yes, and it is written word for word. Section 2.10 of construction by-law 1874 reads: “A construction waste container must be installed on the lot where the building is demolished, and be changed when it is full.” Two consequences. First: in Vaudreuil-Dorion, without a dumpster a demolition site is not compliant. Second: swapping the box mid-job is part of the obligation — which is exactly what a 40 yard box on rotation does. The same section prohibits burning rubble on site, except with the fire department's authorization, and states that “debris or materials must not be dropped from one floor to another”. On the permit side, the certificate to demolish a main building costs $102, plus a $1,000 security deposit where a public road is borrowed.

Yes, and that is Vaudreuil-Dorion's particularity. Section 13.1 of by-law 1792 sets the obligation — “Construction, renovation and demolition waste must be recovered and sorted at source. All occupancy units in the town are covered by this section” — and section 13.2 grants the power: “The town may require proof that construction, renovation and demolition waste has been sorted and recovered at a site authorized for that purpose.” The obligation dates from January 1, 2013. The town even puts it in plain customer language on its drop-off centre page: “When renting your dumpster, ask that it be sent to a sorting centre once the work is done.” Raise it when you book: where the dumpster goes is decided before the job site, not after.

Not to the curb, and not to the drop-off centre. The regional network's chart refuses “Soil (including peat)” at all four of its sites — even though concrete, asphalt, brick, stone, cement, sand and gravel are accepted there under “excavation materials”. The garbage bin refuses soil by name, the brown bin refuses rock and gravel, and section 2.1 of by-law 1792 prohibits leaving “logs, stumps, soil and sand anywhere other than in sites or places authorized for that purpose”. The municipal definition of construction waste explicitly excludes soil, which is why it has no municipal outlet at all. That is why in Vaudreuil-Dorion soil leaves by single-material dumpster: our soil-rock-sod box is built for it.

For a car trunk, yes. For a job site, no, and the regional county's own figures make the case: “A maximum of 5 m³ per visit is accepted”, residents of the 23 municipalities get “up to 12 m³ per year free of charge”, and beyond that it is $25/m³. A 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³: at least two trips. A 20 yard, 15.3 m³: at least four. A 40 yard, 30.6 m³: at least seven. All unloaded by hand — “Staff do not help with unloading” and “Tipping vehicles and trailers may not be used on site” — with a vehicle of 10 m at most, trailer included. In winter the site opens only Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And for a contractor there is no free first 12 m³: it is $25/m³, payable before unloading.

Because here the protection zone is calculated rather than fixed. Section 6.99 of zoning by-law 1872 requires, around any tree liable to be damaged by work, an “optimal protection perimeter” whose radius corresponds to “12 times the diameter of the tree at a height of 1.40 m above the ground”. A 30 cm trunk gives 3.6 m; a 40 cm trunk, 4.8 m; a 50 cm trunk, 6 m. Inside it, one must avoid machinery traffic, excavation, soil compaction, “the dumping of excavation materials or construction debris” and “setting down on the ground, even temporarily, any object or material” harmful to the roots. The urban plan flags the mature canopy of the Dorion village core and the Dorion-Gardens neighbourhood. Measure the trunk, multiply by twelve: that is the radius where the box does not go.

The dumpster can stay; the excavation stops. By-law 1871 sets work hours at Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday and holidays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. But for “any work requiring excavation or causing vibration through heavy machinery” it writes: Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., and “Saturday, Sunday and holidays: None”. An excavation job site in Vaudreuil-Dorion is therefore a weekday job site — which changes how you plan the box: you fill it during the week and sort on the weekend. Worth noting too: the waste by-law frames private collection “between Monday and Friday and between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.”.