Dumpster Rental in Montello, MA

Roll-off containers for Montello homes and jobsites

Montello is a district of Brockton, not a separate town. The postal address is Brockton, the county is Plymouth, the city sets the rules, and this is where our yard is: 1109 Montello Street, on the north side, a short run to Route 24. We are not describing somewhere we visit. We back the trucks in here every morning.

The district grew up against the railroad. Shoe manufacturers and residents asked for a station in the 1880s and got one; it opened in 1884 and took the name Montello in January 1885. Factories followed the line, and housing followed the factories. Brockton’s most intensive residential building ran from 1870 to 1915, and the standard form was the two-and-a-half storey, gable-roofed, sidehall-plan two-family house — Brockton is a two-family city far more than it is a triple-decker city, whatever general knowledge tells you. Three-deckers did proliferate here after 1895, particularly in Montello and along Main Street running south toward Campello, so this is one of the two parts of the city where the triple-decker really is the local building. The Massachusetts Historical Commission singles out Brockton’s Queen Anne and Eastlake two-families, with their elaborate window treatment and varied siding, as unmatched in eastern Massachusetts.

All of it sits on a full basement, because the frost line is 48 inches statewide and once you have dug four feet for footings the cellar is nearly free. That basement is where most of our work starts. Houses of this era were commonly balloon-framed, which is worth checking before any demolition because of the uninterrupted stud cavities. Knob-and-tube wiring is common enough that Mass Save pays to have it verified and replaced before insulation goes in, along with asbestos and vermiculite removal, and pre-1978 paint is the default assumption on every one of these buildings.

Montello station is on the Fall River/New Bedford Line, which is what this corridor became on 24 March 2025.

What we know about working in Montello

Working in Montello means working with Brockton’s rules, and the important thing about them is what they exclude. City curbside collection is available only to residents of one- to five-family homes who pay the trash fee; condominiums and businesses are not served by the city at all. Households get one barrel per unit per week with a 50 pound limit, and anything beyond that needs the official green Brockton pay bags, five dollars a roll of four. One bulk item per unit per week is free with two business days notice, and after that it is a 20 dollar prepaid disposal fee each, mattresses, couches and televisions included. What the City will not take is the useful part: no construction debris, no doors, and for property cleanouts, automotive parts, bathtubs, kitchen cabinets, pipes, sheetrock, tree stumps, rocks, soil and asphalt, residents must hire private haulers. That list, published by the City itself, is the roll-off market in this district. The Recycle Depot at 300 Oak Hill Way, open Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 3:00pm, takes household recyclables, textiles, tyres, waste oil, batteries, televisions and CRTs and appliances, plus paint and household chemicals from 1 April to 31 October, residents only — and no construction debris. There is no landfill and no municipal transfer station anywhere in Brockton. On placement, the two-family streets here are tight: narrow lots, short drives, and a shared drive between two houses more often than not. Under 527 CMR 1.00 an overnight container over six cubic yards needs a permit from the fire chief; Brockton Fire Prevention is on 508-583-2933 at 560 West Street and will tell you how they handle it for your address.

• CountyPlymouth County
• Distance from our yardOur own district — the yard is at 1109 Montello Street, on Brockton’s north side
• Main routesMontello Street itself, which runs past the yard gate north and south
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Everything starts at the gate here, so Montello gets the fastest response we can give anywhere. Montello Street runs north and south past the yard, Main Street is a short block west and carries us either north toward Avon or south through downtown, and Oak Street takes us across to the D.W. Field Park side. Route 24 is a few minutes away from the Route 27 interchange when we are heading out of the city. Because it is our own district we can often deliver or swap the same day if the call comes in early. What we need to know: the street and number, whether the drive is shared, how wide the approach is, whether the box has to go in the street, and whether the load is a cellar clear-out, a turnover or a roof.

Routes we run: Montello Street itself, which runs past the yard gate north and south, Main Street, a short block west of the yard, north toward Avon or south toward downtown, Oak Street west from the Main Street corridor toward D.W. Field Park, Route 24 from the Route 27 interchange for anything at the western edge of the district.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Montello

On a private driveway in Montello 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 Montello 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 Montello 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 Montello 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 Montello