How we check every listing

Dump Hours lists public dumps, landfills, transfer stations and drop-off sites with the details you need before loading a truck: opening hours, fees, what each site takes and turns away, who may use it, and how to pay. This page explains where those facts come from and how much to trust them.

Sources: the site's own pages only

Every fact comes from a page published by the operator of the site or by the local government that runs or licenses it: a county public works page, a city sanitation page, a waste authority's fee schedule, or the operating company's own facility page. We do not copy hours from map apps, review sites or other directories, because those are often out of date and give no way to trace a figure back to its origin. Today the listings draw on 107 different websites.

The starting list of sites comes from the California solid waste facility register, which gives each site's name, address, operator, map position and status. Closed sites, and sites that serve only government agencies, utilities or commercial haulers, are left out.

Quoted word for word

For each fact we keep the sentence it was taken from. A fact is published only if that sentence appears on the source page exactly as written. On every listing you can open "Exact wording from the source" under a fact to read it, next to a link to the page and the date we read it.

Dates and re-checks

Every fact shows the day we read its source. The current listings were checked between 14 Oct 2026 and 14 Oct 2026. In states whose first full pass is complete (California so far), source pages are re-checked weekly, and a page whose content has changed is read again before its listing is updated. Other states join that weekly schedule once their first pass is finished. If a listing has not been confirmed for more than 120 days, it shows a warning and is removed from search engine indexes until it is checked again.

When sources disagree

Sometimes two official pages give different hours or fees for the same site, for example a county overview page and the site's own page. We never pick one silently. The listing says the pages disagree, shows what each one says, links both, and asks you to call ahead. Right now 59 listings carry a note like this.

What gets published

A site appears only when it is open to the public (or to residents of the area), its hours or fees come from an official page checked recently, and at least one more detail, such as accepted items, residency rules or payment methods, is confirmed as well. Sites that do not meet that bar are left out rather than shown with guesses. Today that gives 203 listings in 47 counties and 905 individual facts.

Limits

Hours change for holidays, weather and staffing, and fees usually change once a year. A listing can only be as current as its source page and our last check, so treat it as a strong starting point and phone the site before a long trip. If you spot something out of date, the contact page and the "Report a change" link on each listing reach us directly.