Service area
Where We Deliver — Gainesville, Hall County & North Georgia
Seventeen communities across Hall County, delivered daily from our yard on 344 Northside Dr, with I-985, GA-365, Jesse Jewell Parkway and SR 11 all a few minutes away. Five of them are Gainesville neighborhoods, districts and mill villages — and Chicopee is split, with its mill buildings inside the city limits and the village itself in unincorporated Hall County — while the rest are smaller cities with counters of their own and unincorporated county ground where there is no city hall and no curbside collection 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.
At a glance
Distance and access from our yard
| Town / community | Locality | From our yard | Main route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Street | Hall County | A few minutes south and east of our Northside Drive yard, on the old residential spine of Gainesville | Northside Dr straight down to the upper end of Green Street, which is most of the trip |
| Downtown Gainesville | Hall County | Just southeast of our Northside Drive yard, around the square and the Jesse Jewell corridor | Northside Dr in to the square, which is about as short as our runs get |
| New Holland | Hall County | Northeast of our Northside Drive yard, on the old mill village side of Gainesville | Northside Dr across to the northeast side of town, which is a short run |
| Chicopee | Hall County | South of our Northside Drive yard, four miles below downtown Gainesville | Northside Dr to the square, then south out of town for the village |
| Lakeshore | Hall County | West of our Northside Drive yard, on the side of Gainesville that runs out toward the water | Northside Dr west and then out on the lake side of town |
| Oakwood | Hall County | South of our Northside Drive yard, down the I-985 corridor | Northside Dr to the square and south out of Gainesville |
| Flowery Branch | Hall County | Southwest of our Northside Drive yard, down the south end of the county toward the lake | Northside Dr through town and south, then down the I-985 corridor |
| Clermont | Hall County | North of our Northside Drive yard, up in the top of Hall County | Northside Dr north out of Gainesville and up the county |
| Lula | Hall County | Northeast of our Northside Drive yard, up the SR 365 and US 23 corridor | Northside Dr across to the northeast side and out of town |
| Murrayville | Hall County | North and a little west of our Northside Drive yard, up the SR 60 corridor | Northside Dr north out of Gainesville and up the county |
| Chestnut Mountain | Hall County | South of our Northside Drive yard, down toward the bottom corner of the county | Northside Dr through Gainesville and south down the I-985 corridor |
| Candler | Hall County | Southeast of our Northside Drive yard, out past the Candler Road side of the county | Northside Dr through town and out to the southeast side |
| Belmont | Hall County | South of our Northside Drive yard, in the county ground below Gainesville | Northside Dr through Gainesville and south into the county |
| Sardis | Hall County | Northwest of our Northside Drive yard, out along the Sardis Road side of the county | Northside Dr north out of Gainesville toward the northwest county roads |
| Wauka Mountain | Hall County | North of our Northside Drive yard, up in the higher ground of north Hall County | Northside Dr north out of Gainesville and up the county |
| Gillsville | Hall County | East of our Northside Drive yard, out toward the Hall and Banks county line | Northside Dr across town and out on the east side |
| North Hall | Hall County | North of our Northside Drive yard, the whole upper end of Hall County | Northside Dr north out of Gainesville, which starts most of these runs |
Local knowledge
Nine municipalities, a lot of unincorporated ground, and three different answers
Two jurisdictions, three answers, and none of them match
The container goes on your own property whenever we can manage it, with plywood or timber mats down under every wheel and rail. The moment any part of it touches a street, a sidewalk or a verge, you need to know which government you are standing in front of — and around here that is a real question, because Hall County has nine municipalities and only four of them lie wholly inside the county. Inside the City of Gainesville the rules are written down and unusually specific. The city is the county seat, incorporated in 1821, and it runs its own once-weekly collection out of a single 96-gallon cart set out by 7 a.m. What it will not take is the interesting part: Code Sec. 4-3-9 names discarded building materials, dirt, broken concrete, bricks, rock, cabinets, doors, windows, roofing debris, lumber, siding, landscape timbers, crossties, carpet, sinks, tubs, shower stalls and toilets as the responsibility of the contractor, tenant or owner. That is a fair description of what goes in our containers — the City wrote our job description into its own ordinance. For the street itself, Sec. 4-4-2(a) requires permission from the governing body before anyone blocks or impairs a city street, Sec. 4-4-2(d) makes each day a separate offense, and Sec. 4-4-2(c) reaches the person who gives the instruction, not only the driver. Sec. 4-4-2(b) separately prohibits letting dirt, silt, sediment or debris be tracked from a parcel into a city street, which on red clay is not a theoretical rule. Sec. 4-3-4 requires a franchise — not a license — from the city’s governing authority for anyone collecting and disposing of solid waste for a fee inside the city, and those franchises are nontransferable. If you are building rather than renovating, Sec. 4-3-10 stops the city issuing a building permit for a multifamily dwelling, condominium or commercial establishment until the public works director approves the plans for storing and disposing of solid waste, so that one is worth starting early. Demolition permits and the preservation overlay both run through Building Inspection at 311 Henry Ward Way, (770) 531-6570, and in the overlay a Certificate of Appropriateness comes before the demolition rather than after it. The smaller cities we serve — Oakwood, Flowery Branch, Clermont and Lula — each run their own counter, and the county says so itself: Hall County Building Inspections handles unincorporated ground only and sends anyone inside a city limit to that city’s own permitting department. Unincorporated Hall County is the third answer, and it is the one that surprises people. There is no city hall; the county building department is at 2875 Browns Bridge Road, (770) 297-2650; sanitary contractors hold a county business license under Sec. 8.60.140; and there is no county garbage truck at all. We did not find a county ordinance requiring a permit for a container in a county road right-of-way, which is not the same as knowing there is none — so call Hall County and ask before anything goes in a county roadway. Then work out who owns the pavement. I-985, GA-365 with US 23 and US 441, SR 11, SR 13, SR 53, SR 60, US 129 and Jesse Jewell Parkway, which is SR 369, are state routes. County roads in unincorporated Hall sit under county Code Chapter 12.20; city streets sit under city Code Chapter 4-4. Northside Drive, where our yard is, is not among the state routes, so for anything in that roadway the City of Gainesville Public Works Department is where you start. Give us the address and we will tell you which of the three answers applies before we load a truck.
Four rules, one answer, and where the load actually goes
The best argument for a container in Hall County is not ours — it is written into four separate rulebooks, and every part of it is public. One: the City will not collect it. Sec. 4-3-9 lists building materials, roofing debris, lumber, siding, carpet, tubs, toilets and crossties by name. Two: Hall County provides no residential curbside collection at all. What exists instead is twelve compactor sites and the landfill. The compactor sites take bagged household garbage in bags of 39 gallons or less, prohibit yard trimmings and tires, and are closed to commercial haulers who charge for disposal — a basement cleanout does not fit through that door in either sense. Three: Georgia has banned yard trimmings from lined municipal solid waste landfills since 1 September 1996, under O.C.G.A. § 12-8-40.2, with the definition at § 12-8-22(42), so brush, limbs and leaves are a separate clean load rather than a corner of a mixed box. Four: you cannot burn your way out of it. Georgia EPD’s summer open burn ban runs 1 May to 30 September and covers Hall among 54 counties under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 391-3-1-.02(5), and Hall County prohibits burning building materials, furniture, plastic, rubber, tires and garbage year-round. Even in the open season it is fallen leaves and small limbs from your own property only, in a pile no bigger than six feet by six, fifty feet from any structure, with a permit from the county Fire Marshal. Four rules, written by four different offices, all pointing at the same box. Where the load goes afterwards is a sorting question, and Georgia makes it a legal one. The state recognizes three landfill classes — municipal solid waste, construction and demolition under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 391-3-4-.07(4)(b), and inert under 391-3-4-.07(4)(c), and it is the inert class that takes earth, concrete, cured asphalt, rock and brick. That matters because the Hall County landfill on Oakbrook Drive rejects yard debris and bulk concrete and asphalt outright. Its gate is $20 minimum up to 665 lbs, then $60 a ton, as published — treat any figure on any web page, ours included, as a published rate rather than today’s rate. Sorting is not housekeeping in a system priced by the ton and split by facility class; it is the bill, and it is our side of the job rather than yours. What never goes in the box: tires, because O.C.G.A. § 12-8-40.1 caps scrap tire storage at 25 statewide and bars unprocessed tires from landfills, with city Sec. 4-3-15 and county Chapter 8.65 behind it; and liquids, fuel, solvents, pool chemicals, pressurized tanks and anything hazardous. We could not verify a standing year-round household hazardous waste drop-off in the county — paint and refrigerant are handled for a fee at the landfill — so call (770) 531-6851 before you bring anything chemical anywhere. And the way we run the container is a state condition rather than a courtesy: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 391-3-4-.06 requires collection containers to be “covered, substantially leakproof, durable, and of easily cleanable construction,” with contents that must not fall, leak or spill, and every load deposited only at permitted facilities. Hall County Code Sec. 8.60.160 says the same about covering a load on a public road. That is why the tarp goes on before the truck leaves your driveway.
An old city inside a fast-growing county — with a basement under most of it
Two markets sit in one service area, and a single number separates them. Hall County is 68.6 percent owner-occupied; the City of Gainesville is only 39.2 percent. Out in the county the caller is usually a homeowner emptying a house they have lived in for thirty years. Inside the city the caller is as often a landlord or a property manager turning a unit over between tenants. Two different loads, two different conversations, and the container that suits one rarely suits the other. Around both of them the county keeps growing — from 203,136 people at the 2020 census to an estimated 226,568 by July 2025, roughly 23,400 in five years — which means new construction on the edges and remodeling in the middle. The housing runs in clear eras. Green Street was built out from about 1880 in Victorian and Neo-Classical Revival, with something like 29 documented historic homes along it. Chicopee is a 1927 Johnson & Johnson mill village on the National Register, four miles south of downtown, and it is the cleanest illustration of why jurisdiction matters here: the mill buildings sit inside the city limits while the village itself is in unincorporated Hall. New Holland is the other mill village. Much of downtown is 1936 to 1938 reconstruction. And unlike houses down on the coastal plain, these have something underneath them. The Cecil soils that dominate the county run better than sixty inches to bedrock and are well drained, the city sits at about 1,214 feet on rolling upland, and that combination gives north Georgia what it has been building for a century: daylight basements, crawlspaces, and an attic over the top of them. So the ordinary residential job here is not one room. It is a basement and an attic cleared in the same fortnight, which is a volume job and usually a 20 yard. It also means stairs, which is the whole argument for setting the box on the driveway apron by the walkout or the basement-level garage door rather than at the front of the house. Two rules decide the paperwork on an older house, and in Georgia both of them are the state’s. 1978: the Renovation, Repair and Painting rule covers pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities, and Georgia runs its own program — the twelfth state authorized by EPA, effective 5 July 2011, under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. Chapter 391-3-24. You certify with Georgia EPD rather than with EPA, and Georgia’s version is stricter than the federal one on child-occupied facilities and window troughs. With Green Street, Chicopee, New Holland and the 1930s rebuild in the mix, that is not an edge case on these streets. Asbestos is the other date-free one: notification goes to Georgia EPD under Chapter 391-3-14, ten working days ahead, at $0.10 per square foot plus $0.10 per linear foot with a $25 minimum and caps of $50 and $1,000, and a RACM survey by an agent of a Georgia-licensed abatement contractor comes first. Demolition notification is required for everything except residential structures of four or fewer dwelling units. The EPD duty officer is (404) 363-7026. We do not accept asbestos in our containers, ever.
Red clay, a federal shoreline, and the weather that actually happens here
The first thing we ask about is the surface. The ground across Hall County is the Cecil series — fine kaolinitic red Piedmont clay running 35 to 70 percent clay in the subsoil, deep, well drained, and importantly low shrink-swell. Nothing here is heaving; this is not the swelling clay some regions have, and we will not tell you it is. What it does instead is rut. Dry, it carries a loaded container as well as anything in the country. Wet, it is slick, and several tons on four small contact points will cut in and stay cut in. So: the driveway rather than the lawn, plywood or timber mats under every wheel and under both rails on every placement all year round, and load flat, load low with nothing standing proud of the top rail. Driveways here tend to be long, curving and sloping, often running down to a basement walkout, and on the lake peninsulas the lanes are narrow. Both are worth a sentence on the phone before delivery day. The second thing is the lake, and there is nothing else like it in this trade. Lake Sidney Lanier is a Corps of Engineers reservoir rather than a natural lake: Buford Dam’s gates closed on 1 February 1956 and power came online in June 1957. At full pool of 1,071 feet the lake covers 39,038 acres with roughly 693 miles of shoreline, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers owns most of the land around it in fee title — about 56,782 acres over roughly 760 miles of boundary line. On a lakefront lot the property line is not the water. The Shoreline Management Plan requires authorization for things as ordinary as vegetation removal, land-formation modification, mowing and general lawn care, chemical application, fires, and excavation or silt removal. We will not tell you whether your particular job needs Corps authorization — that is not ours to answer. The Lake Lanier Project Management Office is on (770) 904-3262, and note the split before you call: shoreline management runs through the Mobile District, while Section 404 and 408 regulatory permits go to the Savannah District. Before a container goes anywhere near the back of a lake lot, somebody needs to know where the federal boundary runs. Then the weather, which is nothing like the coast. We are more than 250 miles inland — there is no ocean water to be driven ashore here and no evacuation map to read. What we get is tornadoes, ice and the tired remains of tropical systems. Gainesville appears twice on NOAA’s list of the 25 deadliest tornadoes in United States history: 6 April 1936, 203 deaths, the fifth deadliest in the country, and 1 June 1903, 98 deaths. That is a mass-casualty record rather than a talking point, and we treat it as one; its practical descendant is that March through May is severe weather season and the cleanup work follows it. Winter brings ice: February 2014 laid a quarter to over half an inch of ice near Atlanta and two to five inches of snow north of a Rome–Gainesville line, and the normal here is about 1.9 inches of snow a year against 53 inches of rain. An ice storm in the Piedmont is a tree-debris event above all, and under the yard trimmings ban that woody debris travels as a separate clean load. Decayed tropical systems still reach this far inland: in September 2024 the National Weather Service recorded seven to eight inches of rain across Hall County from Helene, with trees down at Wiley Road and Clarks Bridge Road. The forecast office is NWS Peachtree City on (770) 486-1133. One last thing, because it comes up while a basement is open: Hall is an EPA radon Zone 2 county — moderate potential, a predicted average of 2 to 4 pCi/L — and EPA recommends testing every home regardless of zone.
Service Area FAQs
Do you charge extra to deliver outside Gainesville?
No. Every community listed on this page sits inside our standard service area and the flat rate is the same as it is in Gainesville. 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 Hall County and a good way past it. From the Northside Drive yard the Gainesville runs are short — Green Street, downtown and the square, New Holland on the northeast side, Chicopee four miles south, and the lake side of town to the west. South down I-985 we cover Oakwood, Chestnut Mountain, Belmont and Flowery Branch; north on SR 11 and SR 60, Clermont, Murrayville, Wauka Mountain, the Sardis Road country and the whole top end of the county; northeast on SR 365 and the US 23 corridor, Lula; and east past Candler out toward Gillsville and the Banks County line. Inside the county, I-985, GA-365, SR 11, SR 13, SR 53, SR 60, US 129 and Jesse Jewell Parkway carry most of our day. The flat rate is the same throughout. What crossing a line changes is not the price, it is the rulebook: whether you are inside the City of Gainesville, inside one of the smaller cities, or on unincorporated county ground — which decides whose desk you deal with and whether there is any curbside collection at all behind you. Worth knowing that only four of Hall County’s nine municipalities lie wholly inside the county; Braselton spans four counties and Buford is mostly Gwinnett, so we treat those as adjacent rather than as Hall County pages. 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 Clermont, Lula or north Hall County?
Yes, with a conversation first. Out toward Clermont, Murrayville, Wauka Mountain and the top of the county the constraint is the approach rather than the street: long gravel or bare clay drives, gates a truck cannot swing wide enough for, low hardwood limbs, and ground that carries a loaded box in September and will not in February. 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, and if your own work involves digging, call Georgia 811 first — notice runs two to eight business days and the clock starts at 7 a.m. the next business day. One thing worth knowing before you plan a street placement out there: those are county roads in unincorporated Hall, so it is a county question and there is no city desk to call, because there is no city out there — and no county garbage service either, which is usually why the phone is ringing in the first place. Inside the Gainesville city limits the same placement needs permission from the governing body under Code Sec. 4-4-2(a) instead, and in Clermont, Flowery Branch, Lula or Oakwood it runs through that city. Give us the address and we will tell you honestly what will and will not work.
Which parts of Gainesville do you cover?
All of it, and the surrounding county with it. Running from our Northside Drive yard, Jesse Jewell Parkway, I-985 and the state routes put the whole city inside fifteen minutes: Green Street and downtown are a few minutes out, New Holland is a short run to the northeast, Chicopee sits four miles south, and the lake side of town is west. Placement is what is worth a sentence on the phone. An older street around Green Street with a narrow frontage, a short driveway and cars both sides is a different job from a wide apron on a newer lot; a shared driveway in a townhome row decides the size on its own; and if the only level spot is grass, we need to talk about how wet the clay is before we promise you anything. If any part of the box has to go in a city street, sidewalk or verge, that is permission from the governing body under Sec. 4-4-2(a), with each day a separate offense, and we will say so before we book it. Every box goes down five feet clear of combustible walls, openings and roof eave lines as the 2024 International Fire Code 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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