Service area
Where We Deliver — Hartford, the Capitol Region & Greater Hartford
Seventeen towns and Hartford neighbourhoods, delivered daily from our yard at 192 Ledyard St, in the South Meadows, Hartford’s industrial river district, with I-91 and Route 2 a couple of minutes away. Every one below has its own page with local placement notes, permit guidance, landmarks and driving routes.
At a glance
Distance and access from our yard
| Town / community | Region | From our yard | Main route |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Hartford | the Capitol Region | 4 miles north-west of our Ledyard Street yard | Ledyard Street out to Wethersfield Avenue and north to Capitol Avenue, then west on Farmington Avenue straight across the town line |
| East Hartford | the Capitol Region | 3 miles north-east of our Ledyard Street yard, across the Connecticut River | Columbus Boulevard to the river crossing and straight into Main Street on the East Hartford side |
| Wethersfield | the Capitol Region | 3 miles south of our Ledyard Street yard | Wethersfield Avenue south out of Hartford, which runs straight into the Wethersfield side and is our shortest line of all |
| Newington | the Capitol Region | 5 miles south-west of our Ledyard Street yard | New Britain Avenue west and south out of Hartford, straight down toward the Newington line |
| Bloomfield | the Capitol Region | 7 miles north-west of our Ledyard Street yard | north through Hartford on Main Street and out to Vine Street past Keney Park, then on into Bloomfield |
| Windsor | the Capitol Region | 8 miles north of our Ledyard Street yard | I-91 north from the Hartford ramps, off at the Windsor exits for the town centre |
| South Windsor | the Capitol Region | 9 miles north-east of our Ledyard Street yard, across the river | I-91 north to the Route 291 interchange and east across the river into South Windsor |
| Manchester | the Capitol Region | 9 miles east of our Ledyard Street yard | I-84 east across the river and out to the Manchester exits, which is the fast line for the whole town |
| Glastonbury | the Capitol Region | 6 miles south-east of our Ledyard Street yard, across the river | I-91 north to Route 2 east across the river, which is the main line for the whole town |
| Rocky Hill | the Capitol Region | 7 miles south of our Ledyard Street yard | Wethersfield Avenue south out of Hartford and on through Wethersfield into Rocky Hill |
| Farmington | the Capitol Region | 10 miles west of our Ledyard Street yard | I-84 west from the Hartford ramps to the Farmington exits, which is the main line for the whole town |
| Avon | the Capitol Region | 12 miles north-west of our Ledyard Street yard | I-84 west out of Hartford, then Route 44 west over Avon Mountain into the valley |
| Simsbury | the Capitol Region | 15 miles north-west of our Ledyard Street yard | I-84 west then Route 44 west over Avon Mountain and north on Route 10 into Simsbury |
| New Britain | the Capitol Region | 10 miles south-west of our Ledyard Street yard | New Britain Avenue west and south out of Hartford, which is the old road and goes where the name says |
| Berlin | the Capitol Region | 10 miles south of our Ledyard Street yard | the Berlin Turnpike south through Wethersfield and Newington, which runs the length of Berlin |
| South Meadows | Hartford | Our Ledyard Street yard is in the South Meadows — this is our own neighbourhood, minutes from any address in it | Ledyard Street itself, which is where the yard is and where every truck starts its day |
| Frog Hollow | Hartford | 2 miles north-west of our Ledyard Street yard | Ledyard Street out to Wethersfield Avenue, north and then west on Capitol Avenue into the neighbourhood |
Local knowledge
Why the jurisdiction matters more here than most places
Every town here runs its own rulebook
The container goes on your own property whenever we can manage it, and on a Hartford six-family that usually means the driveway with boards down. The good news is what Connecticut does not ask for: there is no per-dumpster fire permit in this state. The only rubbish entry in the state fire code permit table is a permit to operate a commercial rubbish-handling business, which is ours to hold rather than yours. What Connecticut has instead is a placement rule. IFC 2021 §304.3.3, adopted in the 2022 Connecticut State Fire Safety Code, says a container of 1.5 cubic yards or more must not be stored in a building or placed within five feet of combustible walls, openings or combustible roof eave lines — five feet, and it is a placement rule rather than a paperwork one. That is a placement rule rather than a paperwork rule, and it is why the driveway rather than the side of the house is usually the right spot. A local fire marshal can add requirements of his own, so if the only workable spot is tight against the building, ask first. For the public way, Hartford’s Public Works Permit Division issues an Obstruction Permit for temporary obstruction of the public right-of-way — $50 plus $0.03 per square foot per day under the city’s published Rules and Specifications, with a $10,000 performance bond and a certificate of liability insurance. The rules document never uses the word dumpster, so ring the Permit Division on 860-757-9970 before a container goes in the street and ask how they want it handled; Hartford 311 is (860) 757-9311. The fragmentation is the other half of it. Connecticut abolished county government on 1 October 1960 and the Census Bureau retired the counties in June 2022, so there is no county layer running solid waste: each of the state’s 169 towns answers the same question its own way. West Hartford, East Hartford, Wethersfield, Newington, Bloomfield, Windsor and Glastonbury are all CRCOG member towns alongside Hartford, and every one of them runs its own transfer arrangements and its own permit desk. Out in the western and northern towns, where a house sits on its own well and septic, tell us where the tank, the leach field and the well head are, because a loaded box does not belong on any of them; on a Frog Hollow lot that never comes up. Before anything is dug, trenched or a stump pulled, call Call Before You Dig on 811, as CGS §16-345 et seq. requires. See the Hartford permit guide.
What comes out first, and where the rest goes
Connecticut has no waste-ban list. What it has instead are designated mandatory recyclables — CGS §22a-241b and RCSA §22a-241b-2 — which may not be mixed back in once they have been separated. On a renovation job that comes down to two materials: corrugated cardboard and scrap metal are mandatory recyclables and have to be kept out of the mixed load. Everything else is simpler than people expect, because CT DEEP’s own guidance says the easiest and most common way to manage construction waste is to commingle most of it into one roll-off taken to a materials recovery facility or transfer station. One mixed box is not merely legal here, it is what the state recommends. What may not ride in it is set by statute: CGS §22a-208x excludes asbestos, clean fill, hazardous waste, radioactive material and liquids — adhesives, paints, oils and tars — from construction and demolition waste. The state’s real disposal bans are narrow: electronics under CGS §22a-636 since 1 January 2011, and grass clippings under CGS §22a-208v. Where the rest goes is the part people assume and get wrong. The MIRA trash-to-energy plant in the South Meadows has closed, Connecticut has no active MSW landfills, and the state now exports a large share of its municipal solid waste. Disposal here is a distance and logistics problem rather than a what-is-banned problem, which is why a wet, badly sorted load costs so much more to move than a dry, honest one. On the city side, Hartford’s Department of Public Works collects trash and recycling itself, and only for a “single family home, multifamily 6 units or less, condo association of 6 units or less”. Everything above that line arranges private hauling — and in a city whose signature building is the six-family, a great many landlords sit exactly on it. Recycling is single stream, and construction debris is named as contamination that will get a cart skipped. Bulky pickup is two free collections per unit per year, five items or fewer each, by appointment on (860) 757-9983, with 25 appointments a day, first come first served; additional collections are $75 each, and a $10 permit covers four self-haul loads. Bulky waste does not include hazardous or toxic materials, with motor oil, asbestos and lead paint chips named specifically, and there is no construction category in the programme at all. The drop-off is the Bulky Waste and Recycling Center, 180 Leibert Road, Tuesday to Saturday, 8:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., a few minutes from our yard. Permits come in three tiers: green for recyclables, free; blue residential, $10.00 for four visits; and red commercial, $50.00 plus a per-load charge — half a ton $40, three-quarters $60, a ton $85. The red permit names handymen and landscapers and caps out at a one-ton load or a 16-foot trailer, which is precisely where a gut renovation stops fitting. Worth knowing that the DPW FAQ gives 50 Jennings Road for the transfer station while the permit and yard waste pages give 180 Leibert Road; the coherent reading is that 50 Jennings Road is DPW headquarters, where the permit is bought, and 180 Leibert Road is the drop-off — check with DPW before you load up. Mattresses and electronics are free, because producer-funded state programmes pay for them, and household hazardous waste goes to the MDC Operations Facility at 125 Maxim Road. The city does not rent roll-off containers. Details from the City of Hartford and CT DEEP. See where it goes.
Full basements, Perfect Sixes and what comes out of them
The single fact that governs work here is the 42-inch frost line. Footings reach three and a half feet whatever is built on top of them — and once a crew has dug that deep, the extra cost of a full basement is small, which is why so much of the pre-war stock here has one and why a cleanout in Hartford starts a floor below where a sizing guide written for the south or the south-west would start. The basement and the attic are the cleanout. What comes up the bulkhead stairs of a 1910 six-family is storm windows, paint tins, a workbench, a chest freezer, joint-compound buckets, decades of furniture and the previous owner’s everything. The same frost depth is why a footing, a deck or a fence line produces more spoil than anyone expects, and why the spoil comes out wet: frost heave, the spring thaw and plain groundwater are the ground story here, and what they generate — soaked drywall, carpet, panelling, ruined stored goods, broken concrete and brick out of a cellar floor — is heavy for its volume. On the housing stock itself, Hartford has a building type of its own. The “Hartford perfect six” is a variation on the triple decker: three storeys, a symmetrical double-bow facade, a centre-hall entrance and six units, two to a floor, built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a yellow-brick variant popular in the 1920s. It explains the shape of our work. Half of Hartford’s housing was built before 1950, 81 per cent of it is multifamily, and only 25.7 per cent is owner-occupied, so the customer here is far more often a landlord, a property manager or a contractor than a homeowner clearing a garage, and a turnover produces the same list every time: carpet, cabinets, a mattress or two and the tenant’s furniture. The mattresses do not need to be in the box at all — the Mattress Recycling Council programme takes them free, because Connecticut was the first state to pass mattress stewardship legislation. Anything pre-1978 carries lead paint under the federal RRP rule, and the city runs a Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program for lower-income households with children under six; lead paint chips are refused by the bulky programme, so they stay a contractor’s problem rather than a kerbside one. Anything of that age can also carry asbestos in pipe insulation, floor tile, mastic and cement siding shingle — CT DPH publishes a factsheet on asbestos siding shingles specifically — and we cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container, ever. Houses of this era were often balloon-framed, which is worth checking before demolition because of the uninterrupted stud cavities.
Flood, ice dams and the calendar
Water sets the shape of our year, and the Hartford story is flood. The Connecticut River crested at 37.6 feet here in March 1936, the flood of record, and reached 35.4 feet in the September 1938 hurricane. What followed is the reason the South Meadows looks the way it does: the US Army Corps of Engineers Hartford Local Protection Project, begun in December 1938 and completed in August 1944 at a cost of $71.5 million, protects about 3,000 acres behind roughly 35,000 feet of earthfill dike and 4,400 feet of concrete floodwall. Our yard sits inside that line. The Greater Hartford Flood Commission still covers Hartford, Bloomfield, West Hartford and Newington, and FEMA is redrawing the flood maps now, so a cellar that has never taken water may sit on a different map next year. February to April is ice-dam season — the Connecticut code requires an ice barrier under new roofing for a reason — which means roof leaks, wet ceilings, and insulation and plaster torn out of the floor below. April to June is the thaw: basement water, foundation repair and yard clean-up, and spring yard waste is brown paper bags only on normal trash days, with no loose-leaf collection at all. June to September is the renovation, roofing and demolition season; the city takes brown leaf bags and tied branch bundles up to six feet in the last week of June, July, August and September, and nothing else. August to October is the tail of hurricane season: Hartford is well inland, so there is no surge here, but tropical systems come through and the damage is downed maple, oak, ash, birch and white pine, torn shingles and long power failures — Tropical Storm Irene on 28 August 2011 and Tropical Storm Isaias on 4 August 2020 are the recent Connecticut examples. October to December is the last window before the ground freezes, and it is loose-leaf season: the city collects loose leaves at the kerb roughly from early November to late December, and it is blunt that “Leaves placed in plastic garbage bags will not be collected.” Then December to February: nor’easters, roof loads, burst pipes and interior work. Access moves with all of it. Snowbanks and the plough windrow narrow a driveway that took a 30 yard in October, ice on a sloped approach decides where a truck can safely set down, and a gravel or dirt lane out in the western towns stays soft for days after the thaw. On a soft approach we would rather move you a day than leave ruts you will look at for years.
Service Area FAQs
Do you charge extra to deliver outside Hartford?
No. Every town and community listed on this page sits inside our standard service area and the flat rate is the same as it is in Hartford. 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?
Hartford plus roughly a 25-mile radius across the Capitol Region. Close in that is West Hartford, East Hartford, Wethersfield, Newington, Bloomfield, Windsor and South Windsor. A little further out it is Manchester, Glastonbury, Rocky Hill, Farmington, Berlin and the city of New Britain, with Avon and Simsbury to the north-west — plus the South Meadows and Frog Hollow neighbourhoods of Hartford itself. All fifteen towns are CRCOG members alongside Hartford, and the flat rate is the same throughout: the town line changes whose desk you deal with, not what we charge. 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 Avon, Simsbury or Glastonbury?
Yes, with a conversation first. Long gravel and dirt drives, gates a truck cannot swing wide enough for, low maple and white pine limbs, and ground that stays soft for days through the spring thaw all affect which container we can get in and where it can safely sit. Out in those towns, where a house is on its own well and septic, tell us where the tank, the leach field and the well head are, so the box does not go over any of them. On a Hartford or New Britain street none of that comes up, and the constraint is the shared drive instead. Give us the address and we will tell you honestly what will and will not work.
Which parts of Hartford do you cover?
All of it. The yard is at 192 Ledyard Street in the South Meadows, Hartford’s industrial river district, so the South Meadows, downtown and the Main Street corridor are short runs, and I-91, I-84 and Route 2 put the rest of the city inside twenty minutes. Farmington Avenue and Asylum Avenue carry us west; Maple Avenue, Wethersfield Avenue and New Britain Avenue cover the south; Capitol Avenue, Elm Street and Columbus Boulevard cover downtown; Sigourney Street, Prospect Street, Summit Street and Forest Street fill in the rest. Placement is what is worth a sentence on the phone: a six-family with a shared drive in Frog Hollow is a different job from a single-family with a wide apron, the state fire code wants five feet between the box and any combustible wall, opening or roof eave line, and through the winter the snowbanks decide more than the driveway does. Give us the address and we will have it sorted before the truck leaves.
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Need a dumpster in Hartford 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.
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