Dumpster Rental in Gold Canyon, AZ

Roll-off containers for Gold Canyon homes and jobsites

Gold Canyon is the far end of our territory and we plan around that. It is a straight run out US-60 past Apache Junction with the Superstitions filling the windscreen the whole way, forty minutes on a good morning, and it is unincorporated Pinal County the moment you cross Meridian. There is no city here. No city permit desk, no city solid waste utility, no municipal bulk collection to fall back on — which is precisely why people out here call a roll-off for jobs a Mesa homeowner might handle another way.

The place is a scattering of communities up against the mountain rather than a town with a middle: MountainBrook Village, Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club, Peralta Trails, Entrada del Oro and a lot of individual acreage in between. The housing is mostly 1990s onward, stucco with concrete tile, plus a genuine custom and semi-custom market on larger desert lots, and a substantial retirement and winter-visitor population that swells from October and thins out in March and April. Between the subdivisions there is real acreage, and out there the practical facts are the ones Mesa people forget: septic tanks, drain fields and well heads are common, drives are long and often decomposed granite rather than concrete, and the nearest utility is a long way off.

The work is a mix. Estate cleanouts and downsizing when winter residents stop coming back. First and second tile roof replacements on the 1990s stock. Pool demolition and pool deck removal, which out here means gunite, deck concrete and then caliche hardpan underneath. Desert landscape rebuilds throwing off boulder, granite and cactus — saguaro and other cactus need care and never belong in a green programme anywhere. And storm work after monsoon microbursts, which put mesquite, palo verde and ironwood down across drives and fencing.

What we know about working in Gold Canyon

Gold Canyon is unincorporated Pinal County and that changes the whole compliance picture. There is no city to permit anything, so for county matters — fugitive dust, demolition, anything land-disturbing — the authority is pinal.gov, which runs its own air quality and dust programme rather than the Maricopa County rules that govern everything on the other side of Meridian. We work every load to the same standard regardless: three inches of freeboard, tarped before it leaves the property. None of Mesa’s programmes apply here at all, and the Mesa household hazardous materials facility takes Mesa utility customers only, which catches people out. On the ground, the septic system is the thing that will cost you money if it is ignored. A loaded roll-off puts serious concentrated weight through the wheels and rails, and a drain field will not carry it — the repair is far more expensive than the inconvenience of a longer carry. Mark the tank lids, the field and the well head, or walk the set with the driver. Long decomposed granite drives soften after monsoon rain between 15 June and 30 September, so we watch the forecast on those addresses. Rock, caliche and gunite are weight loads: small container, swapped, never one big box. Cactus goes in the container, cut and handled carefully — it is heavy, it is wet, and it is banned from municipal green programmes everywhere in this valley. Arizona 811 two full working days before any digging.

• CountyPinal County
• Distance from our yard24 miles east of our Rosemont Road yard
• Main routesUS-60 Superstition Freeway east past Apache Junction to Kings Ranch Road
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

US-60 east past Apache Junction, off at Kings Ranch Road or Peralta Road depending on where you are — about forty minutes from the yard, and we schedule it as a proper run rather than a drop-in. Mountain View Road off the Apache Trail covers the north end. Because it is a long haul we like to fix the delivery and pickup windows properly at booking. What we need: the drive surface and length, where the septic tank, drain field and well head sit, whether there is a gate and how wide it is, whether an HOA is involved, and what the load is. Rock, gunite and caliche get sized by weight, always.

Routes we run: US-60 Superstition Freeway east past Apache Junction to Kings Ranch Road, US-60 east to Peralta Road for the south side of the community, the Apache Trail (SR-88) and Mountain View Road for the north end, Ironwood Drive and Baseline Avenue through Apache Junction and east.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Gold Canyon

On a private driveway in Gold Canyon you generally do not need a permit at all. Placement in the public street or right-of-way is a different matter, and here the requirement follows the address rather than the county: in Mesa a street placement needs a City of Mesa Temporary Traffic Control (barricade) permit — 480-644-4882, barricade@mesaaz.gov — and Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Queen Creek, Paradise Valley and Apache Junction each run their own equivalent desk with their own form and lead time. Where the road is a state route, ADOT is the authority instead of the city. Sidewalks and alleys stay clear either way, and in the HOA and master-planned parts of Gold Canyon the CC&Rs commonly decide where a container may sit and for how many days, so check with the association first. Sort the approval before you book the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Two more rules reach every job we run. Dust and asbestos are handled at county level: across Maricopa County that is Maricopa County Air Quality — Rule 310 for fugitive dust, with a permit required once you disturb 0.10 acre (4,356 square feet) and loads leaving covered with at least three inches of freeboard, and Rule 370 for asbestos, which wants notification at least ten business days before any demolition or renovation and applies whether asbestos is present or not. For addresses over the line in Pinal County the asbestos programme runs through ADEQ instead. Before anything is dug, trenched or a stump pulled, call Arizona 811 at least two full working days ahead. Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and collection, household hazardous materials and self-haul details are published by the City of Mesa.

Sizes we deliver to Gold Canyon