Dumpster Rental in Hopkins, SC

Roll-off containers for Hopkins homes and jobsites

Hopkins is Lower Richland, out Garners Ferry Road about thirty minutes from the yard, and it is a different kind of work from anything inside the beltline. This is rural and semi-rural country — big lots, long drives, houses set well back from the road, farm ground, pine and hardwood, and Congaree National Park down the road with the floodplain and the old growth bottomland behind it. Richland County is the authority out here; there is no town hall, so permitting and solid waste run through the county, and demolition adds a state-level asbestos inspection and notification through SC DES.

The housing is a spread. Older frame and brick houses on piers over vented crawlspaces, singlewides and doublewides on rural lots, 1970s and 80s ranches, and newer slab-on-grade construction filling in along the main roads. Almost everything out here is on a septic tank and drain field with a well, and that is the single most important fact for a delivery — a loaded roll-off cannot cross a drain field, and finding out afterwards is an expensive way to learn. Mark the lids, the field and the well head before we arrive.

What generates the calls is space and trees. Big lots collect things: old equipment, sheds, pole barns, a mobile home that has been sitting empty, fencing, scrap and fifty years of a family using the back forty as storage. Cleanouts here are bigger than in town and less rushed. On top of that, this is heavy pine and hardwood country, and after an ice storm snaps loblolly limbs or a summer thunderstorm line comes through, the limb wood and brush alone fill a container. Hurricanes reach the Midlands as inland wind and rain rather than surge, and out here that means trees down across drives and fences.

What we know about working in Hopkins

Three things make or break a Hopkins delivery. First, the septic system and the well. Show us where they are, or mark them, and we will set well clear on the drive or a firm compacted pad. This is not a formality; the concentrated weight of a truck and a loaded container will crush a drain field. Second, the drive itself. Long dirt and gravel approaches are normal out here and the soil varies — Lower Richland runs sandy in places and heavy in others, and after a wet week either one can be a problem. If it has been raining hard, expect us to want to set closer to the road. Protection boards are standard on every set. Third, keep the loads sorted. South Carolina keeps grass, leaves, brush and limb wood out of landfill disposal, so a storm or land-clearing load of pine and oak limb wood, brush and pine straw goes as its own clean load to a mulching facility. Mixing it into a construction box is the most common avoidable expense on a rural job. A few other flags: whole tires, lead-acid batteries, used oil and appliances are kept out of landfill disposal, and rural cleanouts turn up all four regularly — tell us in advance and we will point you at the right drop-off rather than have them turn up in the container. Anything pre-1980 should be assumed to have asbestos until tested, and we cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container. Call SC 811 before digging.

• CountyRichland County
• Distance from our yard20 miles south-east of our Broad River Road yard
• Main routesI-26 east to I-77 south, then US-378 east
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Out through Columbia and onto Garners Ferry Road, about thirty minutes from the yard depending on how far out the address sits. Bluff Road for the river side, Trotter Road and the smaller roads toward the park. There is very little traffic to fight out here; the time is distance. What we need from you is the drive surface and length, the location of the septic tank, drain field and well head, any low limbs over the approach, and whether the load is a clean brush load or mixed cleanout debris.

Routes we run: I-26 east to I-77 south, then US-378 east, Garners Ferry Road (US-378) out through Lower Richland, Bluff Road toward the river bottoms, Trotter Road and the roads toward Congaree National Park.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Hopkins

On a private driveway in Hopkins 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 Hopkins. County recycling and household hazardous waste dates are published by Richland County.

Sizes we deliver to Hopkins