Dumpster Rental in Raynham, MA

Roll-off containers for Raynham homes and jobsites

Raynham is a Bristol County town of about twenty square miles at the junction of Route 24, Route 44, Route 138 and Interstate 495, and that road geometry is most of its modern story. It has a long industrial past for such a quiet place — the Taunton Iron Works operated here from 1656 until 1876 and is described as the first successful iron works in what was then Plymouth Colony — and a very recent commercial one, with Raynham Park, once a greyhound track and now a simulcast and gaming venue, sitting beside the highway interchanges.

For a hauler based in Brockton, Raynham is a sixteen-mile run and a different kind of town at the end of it. The centre is a village around the old town hall; the rest is a mixture of colonial and farm properties on the older roads, a broad post-war residential belt, later subdivisions, and commerce and light industry strung along Route 44 and the highway corridor. On the outer roads, septic systems and private wells are ordinary. Cranberry country begins not far east of here, and there is still working agricultural land inside the town.

The waste picture is Massachusetts in miniature. Raynham runs its own transfer station on its own terms; Easton next door has none; Taunton, immediately south, is a city and a significant regional outlet in its own right. None of those arrangements serve each other’s residents, because there is no county solid waste layer in this state and never has been. What does apply everywhere is state law: the disposal bans at 310 CMR 19.017, the requirement that mixed construction debris reach a permitted processor rather than a landfill, and the fire code permit for a container over six cubic yards left overnight.

The jobs we take out of Raynham reflect the mix. Barn and outbuilding clearance and demolition. Roof tear-offs on 1960s and 1970s houses on their second or third covering. Full cellar and attic cleanouts, because the 48-inch frost line means everything here has a basement under it. And storm work — oak, maple, white pine and ash come down across this town every winter.

What we know about working in Raynham

The transfer station is a household facility on the town’s own sticker and hours, and it is not the answer for a renovation, an outbuilding or a roof. For those, the container goes to a permitted processing facility. Sizing in Raynham tends to be driven by two things: land and weight. Properties here are bigger than in Brockton, so a clear-out often includes a garage, a barn and a yard as well as the house, and the total is regularly a 30 rather than the 20 people first ask for. Against that, anything dense — old boiler and furnace parts, brick, block, concrete, tile, soil out of a foundation dig — goes in a 10 or a 15 that gets swapped, because payload is reached long before the box looks full. Asphalt pavement, brick and concrete have been banned from disposal since 2006 and go out clean for recovery, so keeping them in their own box is not only cheaper, it is how the material is meant to move. Keep clean gypsum wallboard separate as well; facilities are required to pull it before transfer. On access: a good number of Raynham properties are on septic with long unpaved drives, and in the spring thaw, when four feet of frost is coming out of the ground, a drive that carried a pickup all winter will not carry a loaded roll-off. Tell us where the tank and field are and we will work around them. Before any digging — posts, footings, stumps, an oil tank — Dig Safe on 811 under M.G.L. c.82 §40, and for a container left overnight, the fire chief’s permit under 527 CMR 1.00 with ten feet from combustible walls.

• CountyBristol County
• Distance from our yard16 miles south-west of our Montello Street yard
• Main routesRoute 24 south from the Route 27 interchange to the Route 44 exit
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Route 24 south from the Route 27 interchange and off at Route 44 is the standard run, roughly thirty-five minutes from the yard depending on the highway. Route 44 then carries us east and west across the northern part of the town, and Route 138 south through Easton is the approach for the western side. For the far southern end we sometimes stay on Route 24 to Interstate 495. It is a long enough run that we prefer to schedule Raynham deliveries in a block rather than one at a time. Before booking we want the address, the drive surface and length, whether the property is on septic, the position of any well, overhead clearance, and whether the load is structure, masonry, household or brush.

Routes we run: Route 24 south from the Route 27 interchange to the Route 44 exit, Route 44 east and west across the northern part of the town, Route 138 south through Easton for the western side, Route 24 south to I-495 for anything at the far southern end.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Raynham

On a private driveway in Raynham 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 Raynham 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 Raynham 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 Raynham 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 Raynham