Site services
in Chapel Hill, NC.

Chapel Hill's tree-protection ordinance is one of the strictest municipal tree codes in the state. Any container placement that could impact a protected tree gets reviewed by the town before the drop, and heritage trees (older, larger specimens listed under the ordinance) carry additional restrictions. We check protected-tree proximity before dispatch and route the review submission together with the standard street-use permit. Driveway placements set well back from a protected tree don't trigger the review.

Yes — this is one of our two biggest Orange County residential weeks of the year on both ends. Student move-out in May and move-in in August run higher dumpster, portable restroom, and sometimes walking-floor volume along Franklin, Rosemary, and the surrounding apartment-complex blocks. We plan the dispatch calendar around the UNC academic calendar every year, so these weeks are already blocked out when the calls come in. Street-side placements add the Town of Chapel Hill permit and tree review, which we handle.

Yes — UNC Hospitals and the Mason Farm medical campus are a steady year-round commercial route for us. Phased renovation and expansion work with hospital-side coordination on access-route placement so patient routing stays clear. 30-yard dumpsters, 40-yard compactors, and walking-floor trailers for gut-renovation stages are all standard here. UNC Hospitals typically coordinates with its own facilities office on placement rather than requiring a separate town permit.

Yes. Football game days at Kenan Stadium in fall and basketball game days at the Dean Smith Center in winter are regular event routes — portable restrooms, dedicated handwashing stations where food vendors are on site, event-perimeter fencing scaled to the game-day crowd, and dumpsters for tenant and vendor cleanup. We coordinate with UNC athletics on placement so pedestrian flow and campus-security routing stay clear. Orange County health department rules apply to food vendor rows.

Chapel Hill has three National Register historic districts — Franklin-Rosemary, Cameron-McCauley, and Gimghoul. Container placements visible from the street inside any of these districts get a review from the Town of Chapel Hill before we drop. We handle the submission as part of standard scheduling, usually bundled with the tree-ordinance review when both apply. Private driveway placements set well back from the street don't trigger the preservation review.

If the container lands on state-highway land, yes. I-40, NC-54, NC-86, and US-15/501 are all state DOT roads through Chapel Hill. The state DOT handles those permits rather than the Town of Chapel Hill — we note which permit applies on your estimate and submit it. Driveway placements and town-maintained streets don't need the state permit.

Our Mebane yard sits about thirty minutes west of Chapel Hill via I-85 and I-40. For an order placed by the end of business, the truck leaves Mebane the next morning. Call us whenever to confirm the window, and we'll flag any tree-ordinance, historic-district, or state DOT review that applies to your specific placement.

Yes. Carrboro (right next door), Hillsborough, Efland, Mebane, and most of Orange County, plus Pittsboro and western Chatham County, all ship from the Mebane yard on next-day scheduling. The Smithfield yard picks up when the route runs south or east.