Service area
Where We Deliver — Kelim, the Larimer–Weld Line & Northern Colorado
Seventeen communities across Larimer and Weld counties, delivered daily from our yard on the Kelim frontage road, with I-25, US 34, Colorado 60 and US 85 all a few minutes away. There is a county line running through the middle of this town, and it decides who you call. Five of these places — Johnstown, Windsor, Berthoud, Erie and Longmont — straddle county lines, so one town government sits over two county governments. Nine are single-county municipalities with one permit desk each. And three, Kelim included, are unincorporated communities with no town desk at all. They do not give the same answers, which is why every one below has its own page with local placement notes, the jurisdiction answer, landmarks and driving routes.
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At a glance
Distance and access from our yard
| Town / community | Locality | From our yard | Main route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnstown | Weld and Larimer Counties | The town our mailing address belongs to, a short run down the frontage road from the yard | the I-25 frontage roads for anything on the interstate side of town |
| Windsor | Weld and Larimer Counties | Northeast of the yard, close enough that the 2008 tornado track is a few minutes’ drive from our gate | US 34 east from the interchange and north into town |
| Berthoud | Larimer and Weld Counties | Southwest of the yard, on the far side of the interstate from most of what we run | I-25 south and west on Colorado 56 into town |
| Erie | Weld and Boulder Counties | The far southwest corner of what we run, a scheduled trip rather than a same-day promise | I-25 south and west across the county road grid |
| Longmont | Boulder and Weld Counties | South-southwest of the yard, a scheduled run down the corridor rather than a quick set | I-25 south and west on Colorado 66 |
| Milliken | Weld County | Southeast of the yard, six miles east of I-25 on Colorado 60 by the town’s own description | Colorado 60 east from the interstate, straight into town |
| Loveland | Larimer County | West of the yard, the nearest big city and the same county Kelim is in | US 34 west from the interchange straight into town |
| Timnath | Larimer County | North of the yard up the interstate, on the same side of the county line as Kelim | I-25 north and off at the Harmony or Prospect interchanges |
| Severance | Weld County | North-northeast of the yard, up past Windsor into the Weld county road grid | US 34 east and north on the Weld county road grid |
| Mead | Weld County | South of the yard down the interstate, at the bottom end of the corridor we run | I-25 south and off at the Colorado 66 interchange |
| Greeley | Weld County | East of the yard, the Weld County seat and the biggest city we run to | US 34 east from the interchange straight into the city |
| Evans | Weld County | East-southeast of the yard, downstream of Greeley on the South Platte | US 34 east and south on US 85 |
| La Salle | Weld County | East-southeast of the yard, down on the South Platte below Evans | US 85 south down the South Platte corridor |
| Platteville | Weld County | Southeast of the yard, down the South Platte corridor toward the southern end of the county | US 85 south down the South Platte corridor |
| Kelim | Larimer County | Our own ground — the yard is on the Kelim frontage road | the I-25 frontage roads, which is most of the local work |
| Lucerne | Weld County | East and north of the yard, out on the Weld county road grid above Greeley | US 34 east to Greeley and north on US 85 |
| Gill | Weld County | East of the yard beyond Greeley, out on the open Weld county road grid | US 34 east through Greeley and on across the county grid |
Local knowledge
One county line, and three genuinely different answers
One county line, three different answers
The container goes on your own property whenever we can manage it, with plywood or timber mats down under every wheel and rail, and on private property no right-of-way permit is in play at all. The moment any part of it touches public ground you need to know which government you are standing in front of, and around here that is a genuinely hard question, because there is a county line running through the middle of this town. Kelim is in Larimer County — not Weld, whatever the mailing address says. Johnstown is a home rule town that sits in both: the historic Parish Avenue core and Town Hall at 450 S. Parish Avenue are on the Weld side, while the whole I-25 corridor, the 2534 ground, Ledge Rock, the frontage roads and Kelim are on the Larimer side. Windsor, Berthoud, Erie and Longmont straddle lines of their own — five straddle municipalities in one service area, which is unusual anywhere. Answer one, inside the Town of Johnstown. The code is explicit and worth quoting: § 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,” and placement in violation “is considered a nuisance.” § 11-23 requires a right-of-way permit for “work of any kind in the public right-of-way” before it starts, and § 11-25 sets the fee by resolution of the Town Council — that figure lives in the Town fee schedule, we could not verify it, and we will not publish a number we cannot stand behind. The Town is on 970-587-4664. Answer two, the other municipalities. Milliken, Windsor, Berthoud, Mead, Loveland, Timnath, Severance, Greeley, Evans, La Salle, Platteville, Erie and Longmont each run their own counter, and the honest position is that we have not verified what any of them require of a container. Johnstown’s ordinances are Johnstown’s and they do not travel. We will tell you which town you are in and give you its number, which is worth more than a guess. Answer three, unincorporated ground. Kelim, Lucerne and Gill have no town hall and no town counter at all. For a county road it is Weld County Public Works on (970) 400-4000, whose permits cover construction activity and “occupation” within county rights-of-way but do not name containers, or Larimer County Engineering on (970) 498-5709, whose published permits do not address containers either. We claim nothing in either direction on either county; we hand you the number. And for anything about setting a container against a structure out there, the authority is the fire district rather than the county — in unincorporated Weld because the county enforces no fire code of its own, and on Larimer ground because Larimer County’s own position on the fire code we did not establish, and we will not characterize it. The district for the Johnstown and Milliken area is Front Range Fire Rescue on 970-587-4464, and district boundaries do not follow municipal ones. Give us the address and we will tell you which of the three answers applies before we load a truck.
Nobody is collecting this for you, and where the load actually goes
The argument for a container here is not ours; it is what the three governments above you actually do. One: the Town of Johnstown provides refuse collection by contract under § 7-61(a), billed monthly with the water bill under § 7-65(a) and tied to the water tap — and that service does not serve multifamily buildings of three or more units, or commercial and industrial customers. Two: neither Weld County nor Larimer County collects residential waste at all. Weld runs two household hazardous waste sites — 1311 North 17th Avenue, Greeley and 5500 Highway 52, Dacono, on (970) 400-2217, free to Weld residents at 200 pounds per household per visit, nothing over five gallons, nothing leaking, nothing in plastic bags, and no electronics and no appliances — plus a seasonal voucher for one truckload or a one-ton trailer, one per Weld address. Larimer runs the Central Diversion and Transfer Station, 2388 W. Trilby Road, Fort Collins, (970) 498-5772. And a Larimer resident cannot use Weld’s facilities free — which, since Kelim is Larimer, catches people out constantly. Three: burning is not the way out of it in farm country. Open burning is restricted by the local fire district, and the categories permitted at all need a permit — Front Range Fire Rescue, 970-587-4464. Where the load goes afterwards is a county question in Colorado, and that surprises people. Under C.R.S. § 30-20-102 a landfill operates on a Certificate of Designation issued by the county, with CDPHE review; the certificate attaches to the disposal site, not to the truck. And beyond two statutory bans there is no single statewide list of what a facility must refuse — each site sets that out in its own approved operating plan, which is exactly why we ask what is in a load rather than reciting a state rule. What never goes in the box: electronics, banned from Colorado landfills since 1 July 2013 under C.R.S. § 25-17-303; tires, restricted under 6 CCR 1007-2 Section 10, with a registration threshold at ten and a flat refusal at every local gate; and liquids, fuel, solvents, pool chemicals, pressurized cylinders, batteries and anything hazardous. Yard waste is the reversal worth knowing: Colorado has no statewide landfill ban on it, and the landfills serving this corridor publish yard waste and tree branches among accepted materials. We still run brush as a clean separate load, because there are three permitted composting facilities in Weld County alone and it is cheaper — A-1 Organics is on 970-454-3492. One last operational fact worth more than most advice on this page: Front Range Landfill states that all incoming loads are subject to random inspection and that all uncovered or unsecured loads are charged double. That is why the tarp goes on before the truck leaves your driveway.
A boom town with an old core, and a basement under most of it
Two markets sit in one service area. The Town of Johnstown went from 17,303 people at the 2020 census to an estimated 22,433 by July 2025 — up 29.5 percent, which the Census Bureau ranked the tenth-fastest growth of any town of 20,000 or more in the country for 2024–25, and it issued 528 single-family permits in 2025. Around it, Weld County grew from 328,981 to an estimated 378,426 in the same five years. So one half of the week is new-construction cleanup on subdivisions that did not exist five years ago. The other half is the older core. The median Johnstown home was built in 2007 and 71.8 percent of the stock dates from 2000 or later, with only about one house in ten predating 1980 — so the old-house problems are real but concentrated in the historic Parish Avenue core rather than spread across the market, which is the opposite of what somebody arriving from an old Southeastern town assumes. The town itself was founded in 1902 by Harvey Parish between the Big Thompson and the Little Thompson, incorporated in 1907, and built on sugar beets and dairy — the Great Western Sugar Company’s “barium sugar plant, the only one of its kind in the world,” in Weld County’s own history, and Carnation condensed milk. BBQ Day every June descends from the Dairy Day the town started in 1912. Kelim is a much quieter thing: an unincorporated community named for early settler Lee J. Kelim, post office 1915 to 1925, no government of its own, and we are not going to invent more than that. And unlike a slab market, these houses have something underneath them. Weld County’s design criteria and Larimer County’s structural information both publish a 30-inch minimum frost depth; where footings and services go that deep anyway, the marginal cost of a basement is small and basements are ordinary. So the usual residential job is not one room. It is a basement and a garage cleared in the same fortnight, which is a volume job and usually a 20 yard, and it means stairs — the whole argument for setting the box by the walkout or the garage rather than at the front of the house. Two rules decide the paperwork on an older house. Asbestos is an air quality matter here, under CDPHE’s Air Pollution Control Division and Regulation 8, Part B: 32 square feet or 50 linear feet in a single-family home, a certified inspection first, ten working days’ notice, published single-family fees of $60 for a notice and $180 for a thirty-day permit, and notification required for any demolition regardless of size. Buildings put up after 12 October 1988 are exempt from the inspection where documentation confirms no asbestos-containing materials were used. The number is 720-507-5136. We do not accept asbestos in our containers, ever. Lead is the federal Renovation, Repair and Painting rule for pre-1978 housing — and here is the reversal: Colorado is not an EPA-authorized state, so firms certify with EPA directly rather than through a state program.
Ground, wind, hail, and the water that arrives all at once
The first thing we ask about is the surface. We will not tell you what the soil does at depth under your driveway — that is a geotechnical question, nobody has surveyed it, and anyone answering it from a website is guessing. What we deal with is how the ground behaves at the top, and here it has three states. Dry, it carries a loaded container as well as anything in the country. Soft — after irrigation, after snowmelt, after one of the cloudbursts that deliver much of the year’s water in a few days — and several tons on four small contact points will cut in and stay cut in. Frozen, it carries fine until the thaw. So: the driveway rather than the lawn, plywood or timber mats under every wheel and both rails on every placement all year round, and load flat, load low. Kelim sits at 4,938 feet on flat irrigated high plains, so approaches are section-line county roads and interstate frontage rather than switchbacks, but soft shoulders and long gravel drives are both worth a sentence on the phone. The second thing is wind, and it is the governing weather risk here. Front Range downslope chinook windstorms have produced recorded gusts of 137 mph; Weld County publishes a 115 mph basic residential wind speed and Larimer County publishes site-specific speeds from 115 to 225 mph. A county does not publish numbers like that unless wind is a first-order structural concern. An empty container walks and a heaped one empties itself down the street, so tarping and weighting a load here is not fussiness. Third, hail, which is the anchor job. NOAA puts northeastern Colorado at seven to nine hail days a year inside the nation’s most hail-prone corridor, and a single storm can put a whole subdivision of roofs into replacement at once. Roof tear-off is what this market buys containers for, and it arrives in bursts rather than evenly. Fourth, tornadoes. Weld County has recorded more tornadoes than any other county in the United States — most of them short-lived landspouts along the Denver convergence zone, which is why the count is so high without the county being Moore, Oklahoma — and the 2008 Windsor tornado destroyed 78 homes about five and a half miles from our gate. Fifth, water, which arrives all at once when it arrives. Annual precipitation at the Greeley–Weld County Airport is about 15.34 inches, but in September 2013 the Big Thompson, the Little Thompson and the South Platte cut Colorado 60 and, in the Colorado Department of Transportation’s own words, left “the Town of Milliken and portions of Johnstown completely isolated.” Downstream in Evans two mobile home parks were destroyed and the city’s wastewater plant was heavily damaged. The forecast office is NWS Denver/Boulder on 303-494-3210. One last thing, because it comes up while a basement is open: on radon, EPA’s own line is that “homes with elevated levels of radon have been found in all three zones” and that “all homes should be tested, regardless of zone designation.” A basement remodel is a sensible moment to test.
Service Area FAQs
Do you charge extra to deliver outside Kelim?
No. Every community listed on this page sits inside our standard service area and the flat rate is the same as it is in Kelim. 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?
Across Larimer and Weld counties, and a good way past. From the yard on the Kelim frontage road the local runs are short — Johnstown down the frontage road, Windsor northeast, Loveland west on US 34, Timnath north up I-25. Southeast on Colorado 60 is Milliken; east on US 34 is Greeley, the Weld County seat, and beyond it Evans, Lucerne and Gill; south on US 85 are the South Platte towns of La Salle and Platteville; south on I-25 is Mead, and southwest Berthoud, with Erie and Longmont at the far end as scheduled runs rather than same-day promises. The flat rate is the same throughout. What crossing a line changes is not the price, it is the rulebook: whether you are inside a town or on unincorporated ground, and which county is underneath you — because five of these towns sit in two counties at once, and the county decides the building department, the road department and the right-of-way desk. Worth knowing that Kelim is in Larimer County, that Longmont is mostly Boulder County with a Weld portion, and that Erie is Weld and Boulder. 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 Lucerne, Gill and the unincorporated county roads?
Yes, with a conversation first. Out on the county road grid past Greeley the constraint is the approach rather than the street: long gravel or bare dirt drives, gates a truck cannot swing wide enough for, soft shoulders on section-line roads, and ground that carries a loaded box in September and will not during a thaw. Where a house is on its own well and septic, tell us where the tank, the drain field and the well head are so the box does not go over any of them. If your own work involves digging, call Colorado 811 first on 811 or 800-922-1987 — notice is at least two business days by statute, not counting the day of notice, Colorado 811 advises three, and you white-line the dig area first. That matters more here than in most places, because this is oil and gas country: Weld County produces more than 80 percent of Colorado’s oil and gas, and a rural property may have flowlines and gathering lines crossing it that nobody has mentioned. One thing worth knowing before you plan a placement on public ground out there: Lucerne and Gill are unincorporated Weld County and Kelim is unincorporated Larimer, so there is no town desk to call — it is Weld County Public Works on (970) 400-4000 or Larimer County Engineering on (970) 498-5709 for the road, and for anything about placing a container against a structure it is the fire district — on the Weld side because the county enforces no fire code of its own, and on the Larimer side because Larimer County’s own position on the fire code we did not establish, and we will not characterize it. Front Range Fire Rescue is on 970-587-4464. Inside the Town of Johnstown the same placement needs the Town’s express written authorization under § 7-35 instead. Give us the address and we will tell you honestly what will and will not work.
Which parts of Johnstown do you cover?
All of it, on both sides of the county line, and the corridor around it. Running from the yard on the Kelim frontage road, I-25, US 34 and Colorado 60 put the whole town inside fifteen minutes: the historic Parish Avenue core and Town Hall are on the Weld side, and the I-25 corridor with the 2534 ground, Ledge Rock and the frontage roads is on the Larimer side. Placement is what is worth a sentence on the phone. An older street in the Parish Avenue core with a narrow frontage, a short driveway and cars both sides is a different job from a wide apron on a new subdivision lot; a shared driveway in a townhome row decides the size on its own; and if the only level spot is unpaved, we need to talk about how soft it is before we promise you anything. If any part of the box has to go on public property inside the Town, that is express written authorization from the Town under § 7-35, and work in the right-of-way needs a permit under § 11-23 — we will say so before we book it, and the Town is on 970-587-4664. Every box goes down five feet clear of combustible walls, openings and combustible roof eave lines, as the 2024 International Fire Code adopted by the Town requires, and every one gets mats under the wheels and rails. Give us the address and we will have it sorted before the truck leaves.
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