Dumpster Rental in Hanson, MA

Roll-off containers for Hanson homes and jobsites

Hanson is a quiet town of ponds, bogs and back roads about eleven miles south-east of the yard, and it is the place where Ocean Spray began: the cooperative worked out of bogs here before moving to Plymouth in 1977. Cranberry growing is still part of the landscape, and so are Oldham, Indian Head, Maquan and Wampatuck Ponds, the Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area on the Halifax boundary, and Camp Kiwanee, which the town owns. It is made of small villages rather than one centre — South Hanson, Monponsett, Burrage and Brentwood among them — and Route 27 clips the southern part of the town on its way from Whitman toward Pembroke.

The houses tell you what the town was. Old farm and colonial stock on the through roads, mill and bog-worker housing near South Hanson, a wide post-war layer of capes and ranches, and then subdivision building from the 1970s onward filling in the woods between. Lots are large by our standards, drives are long, and outside the small centres almost everything is on a private well and a septic system. That is the single most important thing to tell us before a delivery. A roll-off truck with a loaded box is a concentrated weight, and a leaching field or a tank cover will not survive being driven over.

Hanson does run its own transfer station, unlike Whitman next door or Halifax to the south, and like Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, Rockland and Raynham. It handles the household stream on the town’s own sticker and hours. It is not a construction and demolition outlet, and it will not serve a Whitman or Halifax address, because in Massachusetts each of the 351 cities and towns runs its own arrangements and there is no county authority above them tying anything together.

Our work here is barns and outbuildings, cellar and attic clear-outs, roof tear-offs, deck rebuilds, and a very great deal of storm wood. Maple, oak, white pine and ash come down across this town in every serious nor’easter.

What we know about working in Hanson

Access is the whole conversation in Hanson. Long gravel drives, soft shoulders, mature trees over the approach and septic systems in unmarked positions are the norm rather than the exception. In March and April, when four feet of frost is coming out of the ground, a drive that carried a plough truck all winter will rut badly under a loaded roll-off, and we will say so rather than take the job and make a mess of it. Where there is a paved apron or a hardstand we will use it and lay protection boards under the rails. Tell us where the tank, the leaching field and the well head are before delivery day. On material, the local mix produces three distinct loads and they are best kept apart. Structure and general demolition debris goes in a 20 or a 30 as a mixed load, which is legal in Massachusetts so long as it reaches a permitted processor. Clean brush, limb wood and leaves go in their own container as green waste, because leaves have been banned from disposal since 1991 and yard waste since 1992, and a clean load has somewhere to go while a contaminated one does not. Anything dense — masonry, tile, an old boiler, soil out of a foundation dig — goes in a small box that gets swapped. Keep clean gypsum wallboard out of the mixed load. For any digging, Dig Safe on 811 comes first, and that includes a stump, a fence line and an old oil tank. A container over six cubic yards left overnight needs the fire chief’s permit under 527 CMR 1.00, ten feet clear of combustible walls.

• CountyPlymouth County
• Distance from our yard11 miles south-east of our Montello Street yard
• Main routesRoute 27 south-east out of Brockton through Whitman and into the southern part of Hanson
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Route 27 south-east out of Brockton through Whitman is the natural line and puts a truck in the southern part of Hanson in about half an hour. For the town centre we generally run Route 18 south through Whitman and cut across on the local roads, and for the Monponsett side Route 106 east through East Bridgewater is the better approach. When the surface roads through Whitman are heavy we go south on Route 24 and come back east on Route 106. Before we book we need the address, the length and surface of the drive, where the septic tank, field and well sit, what is overhead on the approach, and whether the load is mixed debris, clean brush or something heavy.

Routes we run: Route 27 south-east out of Brockton through Whitman and into the southern part of Hanson, Route 18 south through Whitman, then east on the local roads to the town centre, Route 106 east through East Bridgewater for the Monponsett side, Route 24 south to Route 106 east when the surface roads through Whitman are heavy.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Hanson

On a private driveway in Hanson the placement question is not a city one, it is a state fire code one, and that surprises nearly everybody. 527 CMR 1.00, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Fire Safety Code, Table 1.12.8.5 lists “rubbish containers > 6 cubic yards” as a permitted activity, with the head of the fire department as the issuing authority. Every roll-off we run is over six cubic yards, so a permit from the local fire chief applies to a container left overnight anywhere in Massachusetts, on private property as much as on public. The exemption is narrow: §1.12.8.5.1 excuses a container delivered and removed within a single business day, and §1.12.8.5.2 requires the container to be marked with the name and emergency telephone number of the company, which ours are. The placement rules Massachusetts fire departments publish under NFPA 1 Chapter 19 are stricter than the national ones most guides copy: at least 10 feet from combustible walls, openings or overhangs — not the 5 feet in the International Fire Code — no closer than 20 feet to an intersection, no closer than 10 feet to a hydrant, and where the box sits beside a building, the top of it at least 5 feet below any window. It must not block egress or fire-apparatus access, or sit under a fire escape, and no flammable or combustible liquids go in it. Because the permit is issued locally, the answer follows the address rather than the county: it is the fire department covering Hanson you are asking, and it is a short call. In Brockton that is Fire Prevention on 508-583-2933. For a container that has to sit in the public way there is no published City of Brockton container permit — the DPW publishes a Street Opening Permit and a Public Works Construction License, which cover street openings and driveway cuts rather than obstructions — so start with DPW Engineering on 508-580-7139 and ask. Sidewalks, hydrants and fire lanes stay clear either way. Sort the approval before you book the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Two more rules reach every job we run, and both are state rules rather than local ones. The first is asbestos, and Massachusetts splits it between two agencies. MassDEP holds the air-quality side: 310 CMR 7.15 requires a licensed inspector to survey any building with suspect asbestos-containing material before demolition or renovation, and the separate construction and demolition dust notification is 310 CMR 7.09, form AQ 06 — ten working days ahead, exempt under 20 dwelling units, $100. Licensing of asbestos contractors, supervisors, workers and inspectors belongs to the Department of Labor Standards under 454 CMR 28.00, not to MassDEP. The owner-occupied single-family carve-out does not cover taking down more than 100 square feet of exterior cement-asbestos shingle, which is a real trap on an older Hanson siding or roofing job. We cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container. Anything built before 1978 also carries lead paint, and the Massachusetts Lead Law sits on top of the federal RRP rule, administered by the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program on (800) 532-9571. The second rule is the disposal ban list, which is the longest in the country: 310 CMR 19.017 bans leaves, yard waste, metal, asphalt pavement, brick and concrete, clean gypsum wallboard, cathode ray tubes, mattresses and textiles among others, from transfer as well as from burial, and both the generator and the hauler are liable. That is why we ask what is going in the box before we quote, and it is not fussiness. Before anything is dug, trenched or a stump pulled, call Dig Safe on 811 or 888-344-7233, as M.G.L. c.82 §40 requires, with enforcement by the Department of Public Utilities Pipeline Safety Division on (617) 305-3537. Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and collection, drop-off and bulk-item details are published by the City of Brockton.

The ground is the other local variable, and here it is the frost line that decides both the container size and the approach. Massachusetts sets a 48-inch frost depth statewide, so footings in Hanson reach four feet regardless of what sits on top — and once the hole is that deep, a full basement costs almost nothing more, which is why the pre-war housing here is essentially all full-basement. Two practical consequences follow. A cleanout starts a floor lower than a sizing guide written for the south would assume: the basement and the attic are the job, and what comes up the bulkhead stairs is storm windows, paint tins, furniture, a workbench and thirty years of boxes. And frost heave, the spring thaw and plain groundwater keep the heavy work coming — footing and foundation spoil, broken concrete and brick out of a cellar floor or a front walk, plaster off a gutted two-family, and wet basement contents after water has come in. All of that is heavy for its volume, so it rides in a small container, often in two hauls rather than one big box. Access moves with the season as well: snowbanks and the plough windrow narrow a drive that took a 30 yard in October, and on the gravel and dirt approaches out on the rural edges we would rather move you a day than leave ruts through soft spring ground. Where it all ends up is the part people assume and get wrong. There is no landfill and no municipal transfer station in Brockton. A mixed demolition load is perfectly legal in one box — you do not have to sort it on the job site — but it has to go to a permitted C&D processing facility held to the state Minimum Performance Standard, 20 percent diversion through 2025 and 2026, rising to 25 percent by 2030, and the one thing to keep out of the load is clean gypsum wallboard, which has to be removed before transfer. Clean metal and clean wood are worth separating for the same reason. Paint, solvents, automotive fluids, batteries and pool chemicals never ride in a container: Brockton residents take those to the Recycle Depot, 300 Oak Hill Way, Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 3:00pm, which handles paint and household chemicals 1 April to 31 October only and runs a free Paint Swap Shed — it is residents-only, and it takes no construction debris. Every town around us answers this differently, because Massachusetts has 351 cities and towns and no county layer above them doing waste, so the answer changes at the town line rather than the county line.

Sizes we deliver to Hanson