Service area
Where We Deliver — Columbia, Richland County & the Midlands
Seventeen cities and communities, delivered daily from our yard on 1725 Broad River Rd, south of Columbia out toward Columbia. Every town below has its own page with local placement notes, permit guidance, landmarks and driving routes.
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Lexington County
Kershaw County
Richland and Lexington counties
Fairfield County
At a glance
Distance and access from our yard
| City / community | County | From our yard | Main route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irmo | Richland and Lexington counties | 6 miles north-west of our Broad River Road yard | Broad River Road (US-176) north-west straight out of the yard |
| Chapin | Lexington County | 18 miles north-west of our Broad River Road yard | I-26 west from the Harbison interchange to the Chapin exits |
| Ballentine | Richland County | 11 miles north-west of our Broad River Road yard | Broad River Road (US-176) straight north-west out of the yard |
| Lexington | Lexington County | 14 miles south-west of our Broad River Road yard | I-20 west from Broad River Road to the US-378 exit |
| West Columbia | Lexington County | 8 miles south-east of our Broad River Road yard | I-26 east to the US-378 and Sunset Boulevard exits |
| Cayce | Lexington County | 10 miles south of our Broad River Road yard | I-26 east then I-77 or US-21 south toward the river |
| Forest Acres | Richland County | 12 miles east of our Broad River Road yard | I-20 east to the Two Notch Road or Forest Drive exits |
| Blythewood | Richland County | 20 miles north-east of our Broad River Road yard | I-20 east to I-77 north |
| Elgin | Kershaw County | 26 miles north-east of our Broad River Road yard | I-20 east to the US-1 exit at Two Notch Road |
| Hopkins | Richland County | 20 miles south-east of our Broad River Road yard | I-26 east to I-77 south, then US-378 east |
| Eastover | Richland County | 28 miles south-east of our Broad River Road yard | I-77 south to US-378 east through Hopkins |
| Gaston | Lexington County | 18 miles south of our Broad River Road yard | I-26 east then US-321 south through Cayce and Pine Ridge |
| Swansea | Lexington County | 26 miles south of our Broad River Road yard | I-26 east then US-321 south through Cayce and Gaston |
| Camden | Kershaw County | 38 miles north-east of our Broad River Road yard | I-20 east to the US-521 and US-601 exits at Camden |
| Winnsboro | Fairfield County | 32 miles north of our Broad River Road yard | I-26 east to I-77 north to the SC-34 exit |
| Batesburg-Leesville | Lexington County | 30 miles west of our Broad River Road yard | I-20 west to the US-1 exit and west from there |
| Pelion | Lexington County | 25 miles south-west of our Broad River Road yard | I-20 west to US-1, then south on SC-302 (Edmund Highway) |
Local knowledge
Why the jurisdiction matters more here than most places
Every city here runs its own rulebook
The container goes on your own property whenever we can manage it, and on most Columbia lots that is easy — the drives are wide and the setbacks are generous. Put it on the street or the verge instead and you are into a right-of-way process, and the City of Columbia, Irmo, Elgin, Eastover, Hopkins, Chapin, Gaston, Forest Acres, Lexington, Cayce, Batesburg-Leesville, Pelion, Swansea, West Columbia and Richland County each run their own version of it. Out in the county there is usually no city permit at all, but there is something better worth knowing before the truck rolls: where the septic tank, the leach field and the well head sit, because a loaded box does not belong on any of them. Gated entrances, long lanes and cattle guards are the other thing to mention on the phone. Rules get amended, so confirm with the city or with Richland County before you book, and call SC 811 before anything gets dug. See the Columbia permit guide.
Where it actually goes
South Carolina has no statewide ban on yard waste going to landfill, whatever you may have read, but clean brush is still worth keeping as a separate clean load: grass, leaves, limbs and tree trimmings with no lumber, wire or trash mixed in get ground for mulch instead of buried, and the City of Columbia runs brush collection and a citizens collection station for exactly that. South Carolina keeps yard trash out of the solid waste stream, so vegetative debris has to ride as a separate clean load to a yard-waste or mulching facility rather than mixed into a construction load — get that wrong and the load gets reclassified at the scale. Columbia limb wood is pine and live oak rather than palm, so it is heavier than most people expectSC DES or the City of Columbia. See where it goes.
Crawlspaces, not basements — and what that changes
Columbia houses do not have basements. The older stock across Shandon, Rosewood, Elmwood Park, Cottontown and Waverly sits on brick or block piers over a vented crawlspace, and the newer stock is slab-on-grade. So a cleanout here draws from the attic, the garage, the carport and the shed rather than an extra floor below — and the attic has already been through decades of Columbia summers, which means the photographs, cardboard, tape and vinyl stored up there are usually already gone. Work it at first light, not in the afternoon. The crawlspace is not storage, it is where the problems live: Midlands humidity drives moisture under the house, and that means rotted band and floor joists, sagging insulation, ruined ductwork and termites. If a remodel here turns structural, that is almost always where it started
Midlands weather and the calendar
Spring is the busy end of our year. The Midlands gets its hail, tornadoes and straight-line wind from about March through May, and when a hail cell walks across Richland or Lexington County every roofer, adjuster and container is spoken for inside a week — so call early rather than call right. Summer heat is the other constraint. From June through September an asphalt drive goes soft enough by mid-afternoon to take an impression from a loaded box, so we set protection boards on every job and we will often book the heavy work at first light; attic and crawlspace clearing in July is genuinely dangerous past about ten in the morning. Afternoon thunderstorm lines drop pine limbs on a weekly basis. Hurricanes reach us as inland wind and rain rather than surge — Matthew in 2016 and Florence in 2018 both did their damage here with water and trees — and a wet tropical system will put a loblolly across a fence line anywhere in the two counties. Soil matters more than season: sandhills sand out toward Gaston, Swansea and Pelion gives way under a loaded wheel, while the red clay on the Fall Line side ruts and holds water for days after a storm. On a long gravel drive we would rather move you a day than leave marks you will look at for a decade.
Service Area FAQs
Do you charge extra to deliver outside Columbia?
No. Every city and community listed on this page sits inside our standard service area and the flat rate is the same as it is in Columbia. Delivery, pickup, your rental window and disposal up to the agreed tonnage are all in the number we quote you on the phone.
How far do you actually go?
Roughly a 50 mile radius from our Broad River Rd yard, which covers Richland County end to end and reaches well into Lexington County and out to Kershaw, Fairfield, Newberry, Calhoun and Orangeburg counties — Gaston and Pelion at the top, West Columbia and Swansea at the bottom, Hopkins and Cayce east, Lexington and Batesburg-Leesville west. We go further for multi-container jobs and contractor accounts. If your address is not on the list, call and ask — and if we cannot reach you we will usually know who can.
Can you deliver out to Batesburg-Leesville, Pelion or West Columbia?
Yes, with a conversation first. Long dirt and shell lanes, gates a truck cannot swing wide enough for, soft sand and low live oak limbs all affect which container we can get in and where it can safely sit, and sandy ground gives way under a loaded truck for a day or two after heavy rain. On an acreage, tell us where the septic tank, the leach field and the well head are so the box does not go over any of them. And from October through December, module trucks and gin traffic set the timing on the highways out that way. Give us the address and we will tell you honestly what will and will not work.
Which parts of Columbia do you cover?
All of it. Our yard sits south of I-20 on Broad River Rd out toward Columbia, so south Columbia, the 82nd and Blue Angel Parkway corridors and the Milwaukee and Main Street side are short runs, the newer subdivisions, the Main Street district and downtown are a straight shot up I-26 or Assembly Street, and the north and east sides run on I-20, the SC-12 and US-1. Placement is what is worth a sentence on the phone: most drives here are wide and flat and take anything we own, the older grid near campus is tighter and sometimes has an alley behind, and around Columbia Community College move-out in May and move-in in August the whole rental market turns over in the same two weeks, so book ahead. Give us the address and we will have it sorted before the truck leaves.
Talk to a real person
Need a dumpster in Columbia today?
Tell us what you are clearing out and we will tell you the right size and the flat price to put it in your driveway. No forms, no waiting on an email — just call and we will sort it out in a couple of minutes.
Serving Columbia, Richland County and the Midlands · Mon–Fri 6:30am–6pm, Sat 7am–3pm