Dumpster Rental in Evans, CO

Roll-off containers for Evans homes and jobsites

Evans is a home rule city wholly inside Weld County, sitting on the low ground where the South Platte and the Cache la Poudre come together south of Greeley. One city, one county, one set of county answers — and a flood history that is thirteen years old rather than a century, which changes how people here talk about water.

In September 2013, the South Platte and the Cache la Poudre began flooding low-lying neighborhoods in Evans and Greeley in the early hours of 13 September, forcing evacuations. In Evans, homes were damaged or destroyed, roads were made impassable, and the city’s main wastewater treatment plant was heavily damaged, requiring a state grant and eventually a replacement facility. Two mobile home parks were destroyed, one cleared entirely, and the other was still being cleared nearly a year later. Across the Front Range the event killed eight people, destroyed nearly two thousand homes and damaged twenty-eight thousand more. We call it the September 2013 floods, which is what it was.

That history is not decoration on this page. It is the reason flood and storm cleanout is a real service line here rather than a marketing category, and it is why the order of work matters. Photograph everything before it moves, for the insurer. Get the water out and the air moving. Then strip in the order the drying needs — carpet and pad, base trim, drywall cut above the water line, insulation — and keep the pile covered, because saturated material is far heavier than it looks and a soaked load reaches lawful road payload while the box still looks half empty. The flood and storm debris guide walks through it properly.

On permits, the honest position is the same as everywhere except Johnstown. Evans is home rule, drawing its powers from its own charter under Article XX of the Colorado Constitution, which means it can legislate in local matters beyond state statute — and home rule cities are the ones most likely to have their own container ordinances and right-of-way permits. We could not verify what Evans requires, whether it licenses haulers, or which fire code edition its district enforces. Johnstown Municipal Code § 7-35, which we quote elsewhere on this site, governs Johnstown’s public property and nowhere else. Ask the city before you plan a street placement. On private property no right-of-way permit is in play at all, which is where most containers go.

The county layer is Weld, and the two facts that matter most are that Weld County provides no residential waste collection and that Weld County adopts no fire code — its ordinance says the International Fire Code “shall apply only when adopted by a local fire district and shall not be enforced under this Building Code,” so on unincorporated ground the fire protection district is the authority rather than the county. Weld County Public Works handles county right-of-way on (970) 400-4000, and the county’s household hazardous waste facility at 1311 North 17th Avenue in Greeley is the near one for an Evans address, free to Weld residents on (970) 400-2217.

What we know about working in Evans

Settled first: on private property — a driveway, a yard, a parking lot — no right-of-way permit is in play at all. That is the answer for the large majority of Evans jobs. For a container in a city street, the city is the desk, and we could not verify what it requires. For a container in a county right-of-way outside the city, Weld County Public Works on (970) 400-4000 — the county requires permits for construction activities within county rights-of-way and its language covers occupation of them, but it does not name dumpsters, so a call is warranted rather than assumed.

The fire-code separation is five feet from combustible walls, openings and combustible roof eave lines, and every roll-off triggers it. In the 2024 International Fire Code that is § 304.3.5 at 1.5 cubic yards and § 304.3.4 at 1.0 cubic yard with an exception for noncombustible containers; the five feet is the same in every edition we could read. Inside the city, the city’s adoption governs. Outside it, the fire district does, because the county does not enforce a fire code at all. Either way we measure five feet from the eave line before the rails come off the truck.

For a flood or water-damage cleanout specifically, a few things are worth knowing before the box arrives. Wet drywall, carpet, pad and insulation are dense and they get denser; a 20-yard container of saturated material can reach lawful road weight when it looks two-thirds full, which is why we would rather plan two pulls than one overloaded one. Anything with a motor or a compressor in it — a flooded refrigerator, freezer or air conditioner — is refused at the local landfills because of the refrigerant and needs professional coolant removal first. Flooded electronics are banned from Colorado landfills outright under C.R.S. § 25-17-303 and are not accepted at the county household hazardous waste facilities either, so they need a dedicated recycler. Paint, solvents, fuel and pool chemicals that came out of a flooded garage are exactly what the county facility is for, free to Weld residents at 200 pounds a visit.

If the house is old enough, the pre-1978 and pre-1989 questions apply to flood repair the same as to a remodel. Colorado is not authorized by EPA for the lead Renovation, Repair and Painting rule, so a firm doing compensated work disturbing paint in pre-1978 housing certifies with EPA directly. Asbestos is an air quality matter under CDPHE Regulation 8, Part B, with a single-family trigger of 32 square feet or 50 linear feet, a ten working day notification, a required inspection by a certified asbestos building inspector, and notification for any demolition regardless of size. Buildings built after 12 October 1988 with documentation are exempt from the survey. The line is 720-507-5136. Vinyl floor tile and its mastic, duct wrap, pipe insulation and popcorn ceiling texture in an older house are all worth a look before the crew starts pulling.

On building code, name the jurisdiction, because Colorado has no statewide residential building code. Weld County’s 2024 package is effective 15 June 2026, contains no fire code, and comes with a published 30-inch frost line, a 30 psf ground snow load and a 115 mph basic residential wind speed. The City of Evans adopts on its own timetable, which we did not establish. And before any digging, Colorado 811 requires at least two business days notice, not counting the day of notice, under C.R.S. Title 9, Article 1.5 — the association’s own homepage advises three. White-line the area first, and call 811 or 800-922-1987. In a county with more than 80 percent of Colorado’s oil and gas production, gathering lines and flowlines across rural property are not hypothetical, which is a good reason not to skip the call.

Finally, the narrow list of what is actually banned: electronics, statewide since 1 July 2013; waste tires, routed to tire facilities with state registration required to transport ten or more. There is no Colorado yard-waste landfill ban. Beyond that, each landfill’s own approved operating plan sets what it refuses — which is why our disposal page is written facility by facility rather than as a single tidy state list.

• RegionWeld County
• Distance from our yardEast-southeast of the yard, downstream of Greeley on the South Platte
• Main routesUS 34 east and south on US 85
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Evans is an easy run east and south of the yard, mostly on US 34 and then down US 85, and the city is compact enough that we can usually work a delivery in without a long detour. The approaches split by age. The older blocks either side of the highway have narrower drives, closer trees and lower service drops, and overhead is the constraint more often than width — a hoist wants better than twenty feet of clear air above the rails. The mid-century housing generally has a single-width drive and a garage close to the house, which makes the five-foot fire separation from the eave the deciding measurement rather than the width of the concrete. On the low ground near the rivers, the surface is what we watch: ground that has been saturated at some point behaves differently under a loaded axle, and a lawn that looks firm can still rut. We carry plywood and lay it under the wheels rather than argue about the marks afterward. A 20-yard container wants roughly sixty feet of straight approach and about eleven feet of working width; a 30 or a 40 wants noticeably more of both, and on a flood job we will often recommend a smaller box and a planned swap instead, because wet material reaches road weight long before it fills the box. Call (970) 427-0341.

Routes we run: US 34 east and south on US 85, US 85 straight down the South Platte corridor, the Weld county road grid east from Milliken, Colorado 257 and across when US 85 is busy, the county roads south for the La Salle side.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Evans

Start with the question that decides everything else: which government are you standing in. Evans makes that easier than most of this service area, and it is worth saying plainly: Evans is a home rule city lying wholly inside Weld County. One town, one county, one permit desk. That is not the normal case here. Five of the municipalities we serve — Johnstown, Windsor, Berthoud, Erie and Longmont — straddle a county line, and on those the answer to a permit question changes with the street. In Evans it does not. You can stop at two desks: the town for anything inside the town limits, and Weld County for anything outside them.

The status is not decoration either. A home rule municipality draws its powers from its own charter under Article XX of the Colorado Constitution and can legislate in local matters beyond what state statute prescribes; a statutory town works from state statute. The home rule places are the ones most likely to have written their own hauler licensing, container ordinances and right-of-way permits — Johnstown, which is home rule, has done exactly that, and we quote its ordinance below because it is Johnstown’s and it is written down. We have not read Evans’s code, and we will not print a Evans rule, fee, tier or turnaround that we have not read. We do not have a phone number for Evans that we are willing to reprint — what a search returns is aggregator listings rather than the town’s own page — so go to the town clerk and ask there. Be wary of anybody who answers that question for you without naming the section.

What does not change at a town line is everything above it and below it. I-25 is CDOT’s, and so is every US and state route through this market — US 34, Colorado 60, Colorado 56 and Colorado 66 among them — whichever municipality they run through. Outside the town limits the section-line grid belongs to Weld County Public Works on (970) 400-4000. Nor does the statutory locate call change, nor Colorado’s disposal bans, nor the fact that Weld County collects no residential waste anywhere in the county. And because Colorado has no statewide residential building code, every code sentence needs a jurisdiction attached: Weld County’s 2024 package takes effect 15 June 2026, Larimer County’s 1 January 2026, and what Evans has adopted on its own timetable we did not verify. Give us the address and we will tell you which owner you are dealing with before we load a truck.

Now the part most of our competitors skip. Start with the line that is safe everywhere: on private property — a driveway, a yard, a parking lot — no right-of-way permit is in play at all. Not the municipality’s and not the county’s. On your own driveway in Evans the constraints we know of are the fire clearance, your covenants, a landlord’s consent and whether the approach will carry a loaded truck, and the driveway is where we would rather set the box in any case.

If any part of it will sit in the street, the sidewalk or the verge, that is right-of-way, and inside an incorporated place the right-of-way belongs to the municipality rather than to the county. Evans runs its own permit counter, so ask there before the truck comes. We did not verify Evans’s ordinances, and we will not print a fee, a tier or a turnaround for Evans that we have not read. What we can show you is what the sequence looks like where it is written down. A few miles away, Johnstown Municipal Code § 7-35 provides that “no person shall place, store or maintain a dumpster on any public property unless expressly authorized in writing by the Town,” with placement in violation “considered a nuisance,” and § 11-23 requires a Town right-of-way permit for work of any kind in the public right-of-way. That is Johnstown’s ordinance and it stops at Johnstown’s town line. Different government, different paperwork, same truck. We do not have a phone number for Evans that we are willing to reprint — what a search returns is aggregator listings rather than the town’s own page — so go to the town clerk and ask there. Outside the town limits the county is the desk: Weld County Public Works on (970) 400-4000. And whether or not permission is involved, call Colorado 811 before anything is dug, trenched, driven or pulled.

The driveway carries one rule of its own and it is a fire rule. There is no statewide fire code doing this job in Colorado, so the edition depends on who adopted it, and the one we can name is the 2024 International Fire Code as adopted by the Town of Johnstown. In that edition § 304.3.5 keeps dumpsters and containers of 1.5 cubic yards or more out of buildings and at least five feet from combustible walls, openings and combustible roof eave lines, with no exception; the adjacent § 304.3.4 applies the same five feet from 1.0 cubic yard, with an exception where the container itself is noncombustible. Both sections exist and neither one is “the” threshold, which is where most of the copy on the internet goes wrong — along with a “ten feet from the building” rule of thumb that is nobody’s code at all. It does not matter here anyway: every roll-off we run is many times over both figures, so the answer never changes. Five feet, always, and it is measured from the eave line, not just from the wall. On a Evans lot with a deep eave and a narrow side yard that is a real measurement, and we take it before the rails come off the truck. And note where you take that question out here. Weld County enforces no fire code at all — its ordinance says the International Fire Code shall apply only when adopted by a local fire district and shall not be enforced under the county’s Building Code — so on unincorporated Weld ground the fire protection district is the authority, not the county, and district lines do not follow town lines. Front Range Fire Rescue takes placement questions for Johnstown and Milliken on 970-587-4464.

Last, the approach. To swing a box off the rails we want about 60 feet of straight, roughly 11 feet of working width and 20-plus feet of clear overhead. What fails that test in Evans is rarely the highway; it is almost always the last hundred feet. This is flat, irrigated high plains rather than mountain country — our own ground out at Kelim sits at 4,938 feet — so a truck here runs a section-line grid and a four-lane interstate instead of switchbacks, and the things that go wrong are different ones. In the newer subdivisions it is fresh sod, a shallow irrigation line beside the drive and a street still on base course without its final asphalt lift. On acreage it is a quarter mile of gravel lane that carries a pickup all year and ruts badly under a loaded truck in a spring thaw. In the older grids it is a low service drop and a mature shade tree over the only flat spot — a gap that looks wide open at eye level can be closed at twenty feet. Walk it, look up, and tell us what you see.

Two more layers reach every job we run, and neither of them starts at a local counter. The first is what may lawfully go in the box. Solid waste in this state is CDPHE’s, under the solid waste regulations at 6 CCR 1007-2, and the structure is not the one people bring with them from the Southeast. A Colorado landfill is authorized by a Certificate of Designation issued by the county under C.R.S. § 30-20-102, with state review — a county instrument, and one that attaches to disposal facilities rather than to haulers. Beyond the statutory bans, what a landfill will take is set facility by facility in its own approved operating plan rather than by a statewide list, which is exactly why we ask what is going in the box before we quote a job instead of after.

The bans themselves are shorter than newcomers expect and they run the opposite way from the Southeast. Colorado has no yard-waste landfill ban. The landfills serving this area accept yard waste and brush, and A-1 Organics composts green material on 970-454-3492 if you would rather route it that way. What is banned outright is electronics, kept out of every Colorado landfill since 1 July 2013 under C.R.S. § 25-17-303 — no televisions, monitors or computers in the container. Waste tires are refused at the gate by the local operators, and state rules require registration to transport ten or more, so tires never go in our boxes. Paint, solvents, fuel, automotive fluids, batteries, propane cylinders and pool chemicals stay out as well; those are a household hazardous waste run, not a container load.

Asbestos is the hard stop. We do not accept asbestos in our containers. In Colorado it is an air quality matter rather than a solid waste one, which surprises people: the CDPHE Air Pollution Control Division runs it under Regulation 8, Part B. In a single-family home the trigger is 32 square feet or 50 linear feet — far tighter than the federal commercial numbers — notification runs ten working days, the permit fee is published at $60 to $180, and a demolition requires notification regardless of size. The asbestos line is 720-507-5136. None of that is our filing to make, but all of it sits ahead of the container and we would rather book around it than deliver into a stop-work order.

The other date is 1978, which puts a job under the federal Renovation, Repair and Painting rule — and here Colorado is the opposite of most states people move from. Colorado is not authorized by EPA to run the RRP program, so a firm working on pre-1978 housing certifies with EPA directly rather than with a state agency. How often that bites depends on where you are standing: in Johnstown, only about one home in ten predates 1980 and the median year built is 2007, so RRP is concentrated in the old core rather than spread across the market. Then, before anything is dug, trenched, driven or pulled, call Colorado 811 on 811 or 800-922-1987. The statute is C.R.S. Title 9, Article 1.5, and the notice period is two business days, not counting the day of notice. Be aware that Colorado 811’s own homepage says three business days while the statute and the site’s interior pages say two — give yourself the longer of the two and you are safe either way. White-line the dig area first. Setting a box on a driveway does not trigger the call; your project does — footings, fence posts, a stump, a sewer lateral. Our permit and placement guide walks the whole sequence in order.

The ground under Evans decides most of the rest, and almost every instinct carried in from a wetter market is wrong here. This is irrigated high plains: our own ground at Kelim sits at 4,938 feet, and precipitation across this market runs about 15.34 inches a year on the 1991–2020 normals at Greeley — roughly a third of what the Southeast gets. We are not going to tell you what the soil does underneath, because we did not establish it for this ground and it is not the sort of thing to guess at in print. What we will tell you is how the surface behaves under a truck, because that is what we deal with. A loaded 20 yard box is several tons carried on four small contact points. Dry, this ground takes it. Wet — after an irrigation set, a cloudburst or a spring thaw — it ruts, and a quarter mile of lane that carries a pickup all year will not carry us. So the driveway is the surface and the lawn is not, plywood or timber mats go under every wheel and under both rails on every placement, all year round, and after a wet stretch we would rather move a date than tear up two hundred feet of drive.

The houses match the climate rather than the map. Basements are ordinary here, which changes a cleanout more than it changes a price: stairs mean hand-carrying, and a smaller box parked close to the walkout beats a bigger one parked out of the way. Both counties publish a 30-inch frost line, so footings, water services and sewer laterals sit at least that deep, and a trench that would be shallow somewhere warmer is a real excavation here. Spoil is the densest material that comes off a residential site, which is why a footing repair or a sewer lateral is a 10 yard loaded low conversation rather than a 20 yard one. The season starts later than newcomers plan for as well: the average last spring frost is around 12 May. One adjacent question comes up often enough while a house is open to be worth answering, and we will answer it the way EPA does rather than by naming a number off a map that gave us two different readings: “Homes with elevated levels of radon have been found in all three zones. All homes should be tested, regardless of zone designation.”

The vintage of the housing is the part that surprises people who know this corridor only from the interstate, and it cuts the work in two. In Johnstown, whose mailing address our yard uses, the median year built is 2007 and 71.8 percent of the housing went up in 2000 or later; only about one home in ten predates 1980, concentrated in the old Parish Avenue and Main Street core from the sugar and dairy era, where pre-1978 lead paint and older asbestos are live questions. Everywhere else the jobs are new-build cleanup, first remodels and hail roofs. The growth behind that is real and it is fast: Johnstown went from 17,303 people at the 2020 census to 22,433 by the 2025 estimate, a 29.5 percent gain that put it tenth in the nation for growth among places of 20,000 or more in 2024–25, with 528 single-family permits in 2025. Weld County as a whole went from 328,981 to 378,426 over the same five years. Those are Census numbers, and they are why new-construction cleanup is a steady service line here rather than an afterthought.

Then the weather, and here there is one hazard that matters more than all the others put together. Hail is the anchor job. This corridor takes seven to nine hail days a year and is the most hail-prone stretch of the United States. Roof tear-off is what this market buys containers for, and it does not arrive evenly — it arrives in bursts, in the week after a storm, when every roofer in the corridor calls on the same morning. If you have just been hit, call early; that is the honest advice. Wind is the second one. Chinook downslope windstorms come off the mountains hard enough that Front Range gusts have been recorded as high as 137 mph, and the design wind speed in Weld County is 115 mph. An empty container is a sail and a loose tarp is a kite, so we weight what we cover and we would rather set a box against a windbreak than out in the open. Weld County has more recorded tornadoes than any other county in the United States. Watches and warnings for both counties come from NWS Denver/Boulder on 303-494-3210. An open container left uncovered through a heavy storm fills with water and grit, and that is weight you pay us to haul. Tarp it, or ask us for one.

Where all of it ends up is the local detail we like best, because the lawful routes out of a Evans project close one at a time and none of them close because we say so. Neither county collects residential waste, so there is no county truck to compare us with. A municipal cart, where a town provides one, is a cart on a schedule and is not built for shingles, drywall, cabinets, tile, concrete or framing lumber. Electronics may not go to a Colorado landfill at all. Tires are refused at the gate. And beyond the statutory bans, each landfill’s own approved operating plan decides the rest. The one place the Southeast’s habits genuinely do not transfer is green waste: Colorado has no yard-waste landfill ban, so clean woody debris has more than one lawful route here — the landfills take it, and A-1 Organics composts it on 970-454-3492. Keep it in a load of its own and you keep that choice. Everything else rides to a permitted facility in one of our boxes, which is the argument for a container stated by somebody other than us.

Collection in Evans is the city’s own business on its own limits. It is not Weld County’s and it is not Johnstown’s, and we are not going to publish Evans’s cart rules, bulky-item rules or collection day from memory. We do not have a phone number for Evans that we are willing to reprint — what a search returns is aggregator listings rather than the town’s own page — so go to the town clerk and ask there. What is constant right across this market is the part that matters to us: no residential cart program anywhere here is built for construction and demolition debris. Shingles, drywall, cabinets, tile, concrete and framing lumber are ours to handle whichever side of a municipal line the house sits on.

Underneath the town sits the county, and the county layer surprises people who have moved in from somewhere with a weekly truck. Weld County collects no residential waste anywhere in the county. What exists instead is drop-off: Weld County runs two household hazardous waste facilities — 1311 North 17th Avenue in Greeley and 5500 Highway 52 in Dacono — free to Weld County residents, capped at 200 pounds a visit, on (970) 400-2217, plus a seasonal one-ton landfill voucher, one per Weld address. None of that is a curbside service and none of it takes job debris. Two things then travel with the load rather than with the address. The first is where it ends up, which is a facility permitted to receive that class of waste — a concrete tear-out and a roof tear-off do not go to the same gate. The second is what the load weighs, because disposal is charged by the ton, and that is why we ask what is going in the box before we quote it. Your side of that is telling us honestly whether the load is light and bulky or heavy and dense, since that is the difference between one haul and two. See the Colorado disposal and recycling rules for the rest.

Sizes we deliver to Evans