Junk removal costs in Palm Bay

A big pile of branches gets a second truck in Palm Bay. If it's too large for the standard yard waste truck, the driver passes and notes your address for a claw truck, which usually comes within one to three days. Cut limbs to four feet if they're under six inches thick, and to two feet if they're thicker. Debris left behind by a tree service you hired is that company's to haul.

Republic Services, the city's hauler, collects bulk and yard waste every week on your scheduled bulk day, and color-coded collection maps show which day is yours. Furniture, appliances and toys go to the curb apart from your other trash, set three feet away from your carts.

Storm season adds a rule. Republic's guide for the city says to keep all bulk and yard waste off the curb for the 72 hours before a tropical storm or hurricane. Afterward, the city tells residents how storm debris will be collected.

Hauling it yourself? Brevard County residents can take items from non-business activities to the Sarno Landfill and Transfer Station on Sarno Road in Melbourne, open 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Bring something that shows a county address, since you may be asked for it.

The surprise is the old fence. Republic counts wood fencing, from pickets and posts to whole panels, as pressure-treated wood, and it won't take it as bulk. You drive it to the Sarno or Cocoa landfill yourself.