Dumpster Rental in Olyphant, PA

Roll-off containers for Olyphant homes and jobsites

Six miles up the valley, Olyphant still looks like the town the coal companies built, with a compact commercial spine on Lackawanna Avenue and church domes visible from three directions. Sections here have names people actually use, and telling us you are in Smoketown or the Flats or up Fern Hill tells us most of what we need to know about access. The work is heavily residential: full interior gut jobs in houses that have not been touched since the 1950s, attic and cellar clearances, porch rebuilds, roof tear-offs and the occasional parish hall or club clean-out where a lot of material comes out at once.

What we know about working in Olyphant

Olyphant's housing is genuinely old, much of it late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and renovations here regularly turn up knob-and-tube wiring, layered linoleum over pine, horsehair plaster and cast-iron radiators. The Flats run low and level near the Lackawanna and can take on water in a serious storm, so we watch weather before committing a container to that ground. Fern Hill and Grassy Island Heights climb hard, and those streets need a truck with a clean, dry run at the driveway. The borough lost its big disc manufacturing employer several years back, and much of the current work is homeowners and small landlords upgrading stock rather than large commercial projects. Alleys behind Willow and the parallel streets are usable but narrow.

• CountyLackawanna County
• Distance from our yard6 miles northeast of Scranton
• Main routesBusiness Route 6 (Lackawanna Avenue)
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

We run out of North Scranton on Business Route 6, the old Scranton and Carbondale road, straight through Dickson City and into Olyphant, which keeps us off the interstate entirely. For the far end of the borough we take the Casey Highway and come down at East Lackawanna Avenue. Inside town, the constraints are hillside grades on Fern Hill, narrow rear alleys, and parked cars on both sides of the older residential blocks.

Routes we run: Business Route 6 (Lackawanna Avenue), US 6 (Casey Highway) at East Lackawanna Avenue, PA 247, I-81 (exit 191) via Business 6.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Olyphant

On a private driveway in Olyphant you generally do not need a municipal permit. Placement in the public street or right-of-way is a different matter and normally requires approval — from the borough or township where the road is locally maintained, or from PennDOT where it is a state route. Every municipality in Lackawanna County runs its own form and its own lead time, and older streets here often have no off-street parking at all, so plan the permit before you plan the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and PA DEP publishes the Covered Device Recycling Act rules and the other statewide disposal restrictions that apply to every load we haul out of Olyphant. County recycling and household hazardous waste dates are published by Lackawanna County.

Sizes we deliver to Olyphant