Service area
Where We Deliver — Greeley, Weld County & Northern Colorado
Seventeen communities, delivered daily from our yard here in Greeley, and every one of them is in Weld County. One county, one seat, one set of county answers — and the seat is here, on O Street. What changes underneath that is the local layer, and it changes in three steps: seven of these are districts inside the Greeley city limits, where the City licenses refuse haulers, permits containers in the Public Space and runs its own fire department; seven are separate Weld County municipalities with governments of their own, Garden City among them at seventy-two acres completely surrounded by Greeley and Evans; and three are unincorporated county communities with no municipal government at all. Those three do not answer the same way, which is the entire reason each place below carries a page of its own with the placement notes, the landmarks, the routes and the jurisdiction answer written out.
At a glance
Where each one sits, and how we get there
| District, town or community | County | From our yard | Main route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Greeley | Weld County | A few blocks from the yard on 14th Avenue, in the oldest part of the city grid | 8th Street and 9th Street east and west through the district |
| Monroe Avenue | Weld County | Just west and south of downtown, a short run from the yard on 14th Avenue | 9th Avenue north and south, which is the spine of the district as the City draws it |
| Glenmere | Weld County | West of downtown, tucked in behind the old grid, a short run from the yard | the numbered avenues heading west out of downtown Greeley |
| UNC Neighborhood | Weld County | South of downtown around the university, a short run from the yard | 20th Street east and west past the campus |
| West 10th Street Corridor | Weld County | West of the old grid, out along 10th Street from the yard | West 10th Street itself, the spine of the corridor |
| West Greeley | Weld County | The western half of the city, out past 23rd Avenue from the yard | US 34 across the south and west of the city |
| Promontory | Weld County | Out in west Greeley off Highway 34, a run west from the yard | US 34 west across the south side of the city |
| Garden City | Weld County | A separate town completely surrounded by Greeley and Evans, minutes from the yard | US 85 Business through the south side of Greeley |
| Evans | Weld County | Immediately south of Greeley, a short run down the highway from the yard | US 85 south out of Greeley |
| La Salle | Weld County | South of Greeley on the highway corridor, a straightforward run from the yard | US 85 south from Greeley through the corridor |
| Eaton | Weld County | North of Greeley on the highway, a straightforward run up the corridor from the yard | US 85 north from Greeley up the corridor |
| Kersey | Weld County | East of Greeley on the highway, a straightforward run out from the yard | US 34 east from Greeley |
| Ault | Weld County | North of Greeley up the corridor, a straightforward run from the yard | US 85 north from Greeley through Eaton and on up |
| Platteville | Weld County | South of Greeley down the highway corridor, the longest of our regular town runs | US 85 south from Greeley through the corridor |
| Lucerne | Weld County | Unincorporated ground north of the Greeley city limits, under four miles from the yard in a straight line | US 85 north from Greeley up the corridor |
| Galeton | Weld County | Unincorporated ground east and north of Greeley, out on the section grid | Colorado 392 east from the corridor north of Greeley |
| Gill | Weld County | Unincorporated ground north and east of Greeley, out on the section grid | US 85 north from Greeley and east on the county roads |
Local knowledge
One county, and three genuinely different answers
One county, three different answers
Wherever it can be managed the box goes on your own ground, with mats laid under every wheel and rail, and private ground engages no permit whatsoever. It is the moment any part of it touches public ground that you need to know whose government you are standing in front of — and in this market that turns out to be an easy question with a real answer, because all seventeen places we serve sit in Weld County and the county seat happens to be this city. Answer one, inside the Greeley city limits. The City is the government in every sense that touches a container. It licenses refuse haulers as a trade: § 8-368 requires that “all refuse haulers who collect, transport or remove refuse, garbage or ashes within the city shall be required to have a license,” § 8-369 sets vehicle standards, § 8-370 requires vehicle descriptions to be filed with the finance director, and § 8-371 makes the City “the sole agency for the collection and disposal of refuse” acting through “city-licensed operators.” It names dumpsters directly in its own permitting guidance: “placement of dumpsters within the Public Space and roadways requires Public Space Traffic permits and proper signage.” That desk is Public Works Permits on 970-350-9881, 2835 W. 10th Street, Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. We do not publish the fee — it lives in the City fee schedule rather than the code, and we will not print a number we cannot stand behind. Everything else city-side is one number: Greeley 311, (970) 351-5311. Answer two, the separate towns. Garden City, Evans, La Salle, Eaton, Kersey, Ault and Platteville each run a counter of their own. Garden City is the sharpest example anywhere in this county — a statutory town of 72 acres and about 254 people, incorporated in 1938 and completely surrounded by Greeley and Evans. Cross one street and Greeley’s hauler licensing, Greeley’s Public Space permit, Greeley’s 2021 fire code and Greeley’s fire department all stop applying. The honest position is that we have not verified what any of those towns require of a container, and a statutory town of seventy-two acres may have very little machinery of its own; we will tell you which town you are in and give you its number rather than guess. Answer three, unincorporated county ground. Lucerne, Galeton and Gill run no town hall and keep no counter. A county road means Weld County Public Works at 1150 O Street, (970) 400-4000, whose permits reach construction activity and the occupation of county rights-of-way but never mention containers by name — so we assert nothing either way and simply hand over the number. Anything to do with standing a container against a structure out there belongs to the fire district and not to the county, because Weld adopts no fire code of its own at all: the county ordinance says the International Fire Code applies only where a local fire district has adopted it. District lines and town lines are not the same lines. Lucerne, under four miles north of the city limits in a straight line, is the whole point in one sentence — a short run from a home rule city with seven fire stations to ground with no municipal government whatsoever. Tell us the address and you will know which of the three answers applies before a truck is loaded.
Nobody is collecting this for you, and where the load actually goes
The case for renting a box here is not something we invented. It is a description of what the governments above you do and do not do. One: the City of Greeley does not run a trash truck. Under § 8-371 it is “the sole agency for the collection and disposal of refuse” and it fills that role through “city-licensed operators” — every household and every business arranges its own service privately. Greeley does not run the trucks. It licenses the people who do. Two: the City’s own annual clean-up will not take what a roll-off exists for. The Annual Spring Clean-Up runs two days in early May, is open to City residents only on production of photo ID, and its published exclusion list refuses “construction or demolition debris (including dirt, concrete, masonry, plywood, and similar materials).” It also states that “vehicles with bagged loads will be turned away,” and it takes no enclosed trailers or box trucks. It will take appliances, furniture, mattresses, scrap metal and a small number of tires. It will not take a bathroom gut, a roof tear-off or a garage slab. The line is 970-350-9336; ask them for this year’s dates. Three: Weld County does not collect residential waste either — but it runs the single most useful facility in this market. Weld County Household Hazardous Waste, 1311 North 17th Avenue, right here in Greeley, (970) 400-2217, opens Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., costs a Weld County resident nothing, and takes up to 200 pounds a household on a visit — no container over five gallons, nothing leaking, nothing bagged, and neither electronics nor appliances. Paint, solvents, pesticides, pool chemicals and automotive fluids cannot go in a container, and that is where they go instead. For clean green material the City’s GROW Center on 970-673-3718 takes grass, leaves, plants, limbs, branches and untreated lumber — painted, stained or nailed-together construction lumber is not clean wood. Where a load ends up is a county question in this state, which catches people out. C.R.S. § 30-20-102 puts a landfill on a certificate of designation the county issues with the state reviewing, and that certificate belongs to the ground the site stands on rather than to any truck. Past two statutory bans there is no master schedule of what a facility has to refuse — every site writes its own into an approved operating plan, and that is precisely why we ask what is in a load instead of quoting a state rule at you. What never rides: electronics, out of Colorado landfills since 1 July 2013 under C.R.S. § 25-17-303; tires, restricted by 6 CCR 1007-2 Section 10, registrable above ten and refused at the gate regardless; and liquids, fuel, solvent, pool chemicals, pressurized cylinders, batteries and anything hazardous. Green material is the reversal worth carrying around: no Colorado landfill ban exists on it, and the gates serving this county list branches and vegetation among what they accept. Brush still travels as its own clean load, because composting is nearer and costs less — A-1 Organics at Eaton on 970-454-3492. One last operational habit: the tarp goes on before the truck leaves your driveway.
An old city in a brand-new county, and a basement under most of it
Two markets sit in one service area, and here the older one is the bigger one. Weld County is the newest, fastest-growing part of Colorado — 3,984.94 square miles, the state’s third largest county, 378,426 people, more than 80 percent of Colorado’s oil and gas and $2.38 billion in agricultural sales. Greeley is the old part of it. The median Greeley home was built in 1985; roughly 46 percent of the stock predates 1980, about 17 percent predates 1960, 7.2 percent dates from 1939 or earlier, and nearly 29 percent went up between 1960 and 1979 — the ranch belt now hitting sixty. The city is 60.9 percent owner-occupied with a median household income of $69,881, and 39.1 percent renter-occupied against 22.1 percent county-wide, which is what a university town of 8,807 students inside a city of 115,073 looks like in the housing data. So one half of the week is a renovation or a cleanout in an older house, and the other is a landlord turn. The city itself started as the Union Colony in 1870 under Nathan Meeker, named for Horace Greeley, and incorporated on 15 November 1885; the colonists finished the ten-mile town ditch, Greeley Number 3, on 10 June 1870, and by 1888 three main ditches watered 90,000 acres. Two rules set the paperwork on an older house here. Asbestos falls under air quality, with CDPHE’s Air Pollution Control Division running Regulation 8, Part B. Thresholds on a single-family house: 32 square feet of surface, 50 linear feet of pipe covering, or a 55-gallon drum by volume. A certified inspector goes ahead of the work, notice runs ten working days, the published single-family fees are $60 to notify and $180 for a thirty-day permit, and every demolition needs notifying whatever the quantity. Anything put up after 12 October 1988 is exempt where the documentation shows no asbestos-containing material went into it. The line is 720-507-5136, and nothing containing asbestos goes in one of our boxes under any circumstances. Lead is the federal Renovation, Repair and Painting rule for anything pre-1978 — and here is where Colorado runs backwards: the state never became EPA-authorized for it, so a firm certifies with EPA itself rather than through any state program. Neither obligation is ours to discharge, but both of them move the schedule. The oldest ground is documented and dated by the City itself: the Monroe Avenue Historic District, designated 13 December 1999 and published as “9th Ave. from 11th St. to 16th St., roughly”; the Downtown Greeley Historic District, designated 25 November 2002, “7th to 10th Streets between 8th and 9th Avenues, and including the Weld County Courthouse, Lincoln Park and Greeley High School”; and Glenmere, whose Fairacres subdivision was developed from 1919 by lumber dealer Frank M. Weller. And these houses have something underneath them. The City adopted the 2021 International Residential Code at § 22-76 effective 1 January 2023, and its own adopted Table R301.2(1) sets a 30-inch frost line. Once footings and services are going that deep regardless, digging the extra for a basement costs comparatively little, so basements are the norm. Which means the standard residential job is not one room at all. It is a lower level and a garage emptied inside the same fortnight — a volume job, usually a 20 yard — and it involves stairs, which is the whole case for setting the box at the walkout or the garage instead of out front.
Ground, wind, hail, and the water that arrives all at once
The opening question on every booking is what the box will stand on. What the soil does at depth under your driveway is not ours to answer — it needs a geotechnical investigation, nobody has surveyed it, and anybody answering it off a website is guessing. The Colorado Geological Survey maps a potentially swelling-clay corridor along the Front Range with Greeley named at its northern end, and notes those clays can expand up to twenty percent by volume when they get wet; that is a reason to keep water away from a foundation and a heavy box on concrete, not a claim about any address. How the ground behaves at the top is a different matter, and it runs to three moods. Dry, it will carry a loaded container as well as ground anywhere. Soft — after an irrigation set, after snowmelt, after one of the cloudbursts that deliver a good share of the year in two afternoons — and several tons on four small pads cut in and stay in the cut. Frozen, it holds until the thaw arrives. Hence: concrete rather than turf, mats under every wheel and both rails on every drop in every month, and flat and low when you load it. Greeley sits at 4,676 feet on flat ground near the confluence of the Cache la Poudre and the South Platte, so approaches are a city grid and section-line county roads rather than switchbacks — but narrow older lots, rear alleys, soft shoulders and long gravel drives are all worth a sentence on the phone. Second comes wind, which is the weather risk that actually governs placement. Downslope chinook events on the Front Range have produced recorded gusts of 137 mph, and Weld County publishes a 115 mph basic residential wind speed. No county writes a figure like that down unless wind is a first-order structural problem. An empty box walks and a heaped one posts itself along the street, so weighting and covering a load here is not fussiness on our part. Third, hail, and it is the anchor job. NOAA has northeastern Colorado at seven to nine hail days a year inside the most hail-prone corridor in the country, and one storm can push an entire neighborhood of roofs into replacement together. Tear-off is what this market rents boxes for, and it never arrives evenly — it arrives in bursts. Fourth, tornadoes. No county in the United States has logged more of them than Weld County, mostly short-lived landspouts on the Denver convergence zone, which is why the count runs so high — and the City’s own museum service has published on it. Fifth, water, which arrives all at once when it arrives. The 1991–2020 normal measured at Greeley–Weld County Airport is 15.34 inches of precipitation a year with an annual mean of 47.1 °F — but September 2013 put the South Platte and the Cache la Poudre into low-lying neighborhoods here and in Evans, where the wastewater plant was heavily damaged and two mobile home parks were destroyed, and a separate Poudre breach in June 2014 pushed water into the city near 35th Avenue and F Street. The forecast office is NWS Denver/Boulder on 303-494-3210. And the season starts later than newcomers expect: the average last spring frost is 12 May and the first fall frost 8 October, which is why outdoor demolition, fencing and landscaping all bunch into May — the same fortnight the university leases turn and the City runs its clean-up. And one last item, since it always comes up with a lower level opened up: on radon we take EPA’s own position, which is that elevated readings have been found in every zone it draws and that “all homes should be tested, regardless of zone designation.” A basement remodel is a sensible week to do it.
Service Area FAQs
Do you charge extra to deliver outside Greeley?
No. Everything listed on this page is inside the standard area, and the rate is the one we would quote for the same job in Greeley. The drop, the pull, the days you keep it and the disposal up to the agreed tonnage all sit inside the single figure you get on the phone.
How far do you actually go?
Across Weld County, and a good way past. From the yard on 14th Avenue the city runs are short — downtown and Monroe Avenue are a few blocks, Glenmere and the streets around UNC a little further, the West 10th Street corridor, west Greeley and Promontory out along 10th Street and US 34. South it is Garden City and then Evans; further south down US 85 are La Salle and Platteville. North up the same corridor are Lucerne, Eaton and Ault. East on US 34 is Kersey, and out on the section grid north and east are Galeton and Gill. The rate does not move across any of it. What a boundary changes is never the price — it is the rulebook: city limits, separate town, or unincorporated county ground. The county layer never changes, and that is the useful part — every one of these seventeen is in Weld County, and the building department, planning and the right-of-way desk are all at 1150 O Street here in the city on (970) 400-4000. For multi-container work and trade accounts we go further still. Address not on the list? Ring and ask — and in the rare case we cannot reach you, we generally know who does.
Can you deliver out to Lucerne, Galeton, Gill and the county roads?
Yes, after a conversation. Out on the Weld County section grid it is the approach that constrains us rather than the street: long gravel or bare dirt drives, gates too narrow for the truck to swing through, soft shoulders on section-line roads, and ground that will hold a loaded box in September and will not hold one during a thaw. On a property with its own well and septic, mark the tank, the field and the well head so nothing is set over any of them. If your own work involves digging, ring Colorado 811 first on 811 or 800-922-1987 — the statutory notice is two business days minimum, excluding the day you give it, Colorado 811 asks for three, and the dig area gets marked in white beforehand. That carries more weight here than in most markets, because this is oil and gas country: Weld County turns out more than 80 percent of Colorado’s production, and a rural property can have flow lines and gathering lines crossing it that nobody has ever mentioned to the occupier. Before planning any placement on public ground out there, know this much: Lucerne, Galeton and Gill are unincorporated Weld County, so no town desk exists to ring. The road belongs to Weld County Public Works at 1150 O Street, (970) 400-4000, and anything about standing a container against a structure belongs to the fire district, because Weld adopts no fire code of its own. Inside the Greeley city limits the same placement is a Public Space traffic permit and proper signage from Public Works Permits on 970-350-9881, and a fire-code question goes to Greeley Fire Prevention on (970) 350-9510. Lucerne is under four miles from the city limits measured on the map, and the answers at either end of that run have almost nothing in common. Give us the address and you will get an honest account of what will and will not work.
Which parts of Greeley do you cover?
All of it, and the grid makes it straightforward: numbered streets run east and west, numbered avenues north and south, and the avenue numbers climb westward — 23rd, 35th, 47th, 59th — while north of the old grid the east–west streets are lettered instead. From the yard on 14th Avenue, downtown and the Monroe Avenue district are a few blocks away, Glenmere and the streets around UNC are a short run, and the West 10th Street corridor, west Greeley and Promontory are out along 10th Street and US 34. Placement is what is worth a sentence on the phone. A narrow lot on an older street downtown or around Monroe Avenue, with a short drive and cars parked both sides, is a different job from a wide apron on newer ground out west. On those blocks most of the container work happens off the rear alley anyway. A shared driveway in a townhome row settles the size by itself. And where the only level spot is unpaved, we need to talk about how soft it goes before anybody promises anything. Should any part of the box have to stand in the roadway or the Public Space, the City is explicit — “placement of dumpsters within the Public Space and roadways requires Public Space Traffic permits and proper signage” — and we will say so before we book it; that desk is 970-350-9881. Every box goes down five feet clear of a combustible wall, as Section 304.3 of the 2021 International Fire Code adopted by the City at § 22-454 requires — and every one of them gets mats under the wheels and the rails. Give us the address and it is settled before a truck leaves the yard.
Talk to a real person
Need a dumpster in Greeley today?
Describe the load — the room, the roof, the basement, the slab out the back — and you will get the size, the flat number and the day, on the phone, first time of asking. There is nothing on this site to fill in and nothing sitting in an inbox overnight.
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