Dumpster Rental in Moscow Mills, MO

Roll-off containers for Moscow Mills homes and jobsites

Moscow Mills is twenty-five minutes north on US-61, just short of Troy, and it is a small town that has picked up a fair amount of new residential building over the last couple of decades. Like Troy it is in Lincoln County, which is a separate permitting jurisdiction from St. Charles County — different offices, different process, different answers on anything in a public right-of-way. Sort that out before you plan a street placement, and confirm the current requirements with the county rather than assuming, because they do get revised.

The town sits near the Cuivre River with farmland around it, and the building stock reflects a place that grew in stages. There is an older core along Highway C and the original streets with frame houses, some carrying plaster and lath. There are 1980s and 1990s houses, and there is newer subdivision work on the edges, all of it with full basements — which is the fact that decides container size on almost every cleanout we do here. People plan for the main floor and forget the basement holds an equal volume of stored contents, a workshop corner and everything from the last two moves.

What keeps us busy is a mix of first-refresh remodelling, storm work and rural cleanouts. Decks reaching end of life, roofs replaced after a hail spring, kitchens and baths coming out of the 1990s stock, and basements getting finished, which throws framing offcuts, drywall scrap, carpet and pad into a box alongside the storage that had to come out first. On the rural side, farm and acreage cleanouts with pole barns and outbuildings, long gravel drives, septic and wells. And the river bottoms along the Cuivre bring their own history of high water, which shows up in basements, outbuildings and everything stored in them. Downed hardwood after wind events goes as a separate clean load, since Missouri keeps yard waste out of sanitary landfills.

What we know about working in Moscow Mills

The Lincoln County line is the first thing to check. Anything in a street or public right-of-way here is a Lincoln County and City of Moscow Mills question rather than a St. Charles County one, and the process is not the same as the one you would use in Wentzville or O’Fallon. Confirm current requirements before you build a schedule around them. On your own driveway you generally need nothing. Physically, the in-town jobs are straightforward: ordinary drives, protection boards standard on every delivery, and a careful look at older concrete that freeze-thaw on expansive clay has cracked at the joints. In the newer subdivisions, check your association’s rules on container placement and how many days it may stay, and give us the window when you book. On rural addresses along the river and the county roads, the usual applies — tell us the gravel drive length, grade, surface and drainage, keep the container clear of the septic tank, lateral field and well head, and flag any low limbs, because a hoist arm needs real vertical clearance above the truck to raise and set a box. We will not cut a limb to make a delivery fit. Call Missouri 811 before digging near a placement, and if the property has flooded in the past, expect wet material to weigh far more than the same volume dry.

• CountyLincoln County
• Distance from our yard15 miles north of our May Road yard
• Main routesUS-61 north from Wentzville to the Moscow Mills exit
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

US-61 north from Wentzville to the Moscow Mills exit, then Highway C or Old Highway 61 into town and the county roads beyond. Twenty-five minutes from the yard, and we usually run Moscow Mills and Troy together so the truck is loaded in both directions. Remember this is Lincoln County for any right-of-way question. For in-town jobs tell us the driveway condition and any association day limit; for rural ones, the drive surface and grade, the septic and well locations, and whether the tree line will clear a hoist arm.

Routes we run: US-61 north from Wentzville to the Moscow Mills exit, Highway C through the middle of town, Old Highway 61 and the town streets, the county roads along the Cuivre River.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Moscow Mills

On a private driveway in Moscow Mills 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 MoDOT where it is a state route. Every municipality in Lincoln 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 Missouri DNR publishes the Covered Device Recycling Act rules and the other statewide disposal restrictions that apply to every load we haul out of Moscow Mills. County recycling and household hazardous waste dates are published by St. Charles County.

Sizes we deliver to Moscow Mills