Dumpster Rental in Ballentine, SC

Roll-off containers for Ballentine homes and jobsites

Ballentine sits between Irmo and Chapin on the Richland County side of Broad River Road, and it is one of the easiest runs we make — a straight fifteen minute shot north-west out of the yard with no interstate involved unless we want it. That matters more than it sounds. Ballentine addresses are unincorporated Richland County, so the county is the permitting and solid waste authority, not a town hall, and that is a different set of phone numbers from Chapin a few miles up the road in Lexington County. If your job needs a permit or a demolition notification, start with Richland County and confirm current requirements before anything comes down.

The lots here are the thing. Ballentine has bigger parcels than Irmo, more trees, more gravel and dirt drives, and a shoreline stretch on Lake Murray that runs down Johnson Marina Road and the streets off it. Housing is a genuine mix: 1960s and 70s ranches on piers over vented crawlspaces, 1990s and 2000s subdivision stock, lake cottages that have been added onto by three owners, and newer slab-on-grade construction filling in toward Chapin. Every house here is pier-and-crawlspace or slab. What the older stock has is a crawlspace that has spent decades under Midlands humidity, and the resulting job — wet insulation, failed vapour barrier, rotted joist ends, mould and ruined ductwork — is a steady part of what we haul out of here.

The rest of the volume is land and water. Big wooded lots mean serious tree work: loblolly pine, water oak and sweetgum, and after an ice storm or a summer thunderstorm the limb wood alone fills a container. Lake lots mean docks, decking, bulkhead timber and boathouse work. And the acreage means outbuildings — old sheds, pole barns, a workshop that has been a dumping ground since 1988. Ballentine calls tend to be bigger loads with easier placement than in town, which is exactly the trade we like.

What we know about working in Ballentine

Ballentine gives us room, and room solves most delivery problems, but there are three things worth flagging. Septic and wells first. Plenty of property out here is on a tank, drain field and well, and a loaded roll-off cannot go over any of it. Show the driver where the lids and the field are, or mark them, and we will set on the drive or a firm pad clear of the system. Second, the drives themselves. Gravel and dirt approaches are common, and Richland County on this side of the Fall Line is red clay — clay ruts deep under a loaded truck and holds water for days after rain. If we have had a wet week we may ask to set at the head of the drive rather than back by the shed, and protection boards go under every container regardless. Third, the yard waste rule. South Carolina keeps grass, leaves, brush and limb wood out of landfills, so a storm cleanup load of pine and oak limbs, pine straw and brush goes as a separate clean load to a mulching or composting facility, never mixed with construction debris. Mixing the two is the single most common way a job gets more expensive than it needed to be. Dock timber and treated lumber are the exception — that is construction debris. If you are digging footings, setting posts for a new shed or trenching for a line, call SC 811 before the shovel goes in.

• CountyRichland County
• Distance from our yard11 miles north-west of our Broad River Road yard
• Main routesBroad River Road (US-176) straight north-west out of the yard
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Broad River Road north-west out of the yard, fifteen minutes and no interstate needed. Johnson Marina Road for the shoreline, Old Tamah Road across the middle, Dutch Fork Road when the address sits toward Irmo or Chapin. The only regular delay is school traffic on Broad River Road in the afternoon. Tell us whether the drive is paved, gravel or dirt, where the septic tank, drain field and well head sit, how far back the container needs to go, and whether the load is storm brush, dock timber or crawlspace debris — those get handled differently.

Routes we run: Broad River Road (US-176) straight north-west out of the yard, Johnson Marina Road down to the Lake Murray shoreline, Old Tamah Road across the middle of the community, Dutch Fork Road toward Irmo and Chapin.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Ballentine

On a private driveway in Ballentine you generally do not need a municipal permit. Placement in the public street or right-of-way is a different matter and normally requires approval — from the city or county where the road is locally maintained, or from SCDOT where it is a state route. Every municipality in Richland County runs its own form and its own lead time, and older streets here often have narrow shoulders and deep drainage ditches, so plan the permit before you plan the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and SC DES publishes the Covered Device Recycling Act rules and the other statewide disposal restrictions that apply to every load we haul out of Ballentine. County recycling and household hazardous waste dates are published by Richland County.

Sizes we deliver to Ballentine