Contractor's Guide to Concrete Debris Removal in Blount County

TL;DR: For a Blount County contractor, concrete tear-out disposal is straightforward. SMSG's Maryville yard at 245 Brookdale Rd takes clean concrete free, sits 5 to 20 minutes from every population center in the county, and takes concrete with rebar attached. If you don't self-haul, we quote hauling off the actual job specs. Use the tear-out calculator to size a specific job.

Every county has its own rhythm for demo and disposal. Blount County's is defined by three things: the geography (mountains east, TVA lakes west, everything running north to Knoxville), the main highways (US-129, US-411, SR 33), and the fact that most tear-out jobs cluster in a handful of cities. This guide is written specifically for the Blount contractor doing residential and light-commercial concrete work.

The Blount County map, from a hauler's view

Where the work is:

• Maryville: the county seat, biggest population base, most of the residential rebuilds. Central Maryville is 5 to 10 minutes from our yard on Brookdale Rd.
• Alcoa: fast-growing commercial corridor along US-129 and Alcoa Highway. Airport-adjacent industrial pads, retail rebuilds, and Springbrook Corporate Center. 5 to 8 minutes from us.
• Rockford: residential and light-industrial along US-411 south of Alcoa. 8 to 12 minutes.
• Louisville: TVA-lake residential, Tellico Village extension market, boat storage pads. 15 to 20 minutes via Louisville Road.
• Friendsville: north Blount, mostly residential and small commercial. 15 to 20 minutes via SR 33.
• Townsend: gateway to the Smokies, tourist-adjacent construction, cabin foundations. 25 to 30 minutes east on US-321.
• Walland and Wildwood: rural residential, smaller job sizes. 15 to 25 minutes.

Every one of those is closer to our Brookdale Rd yard than to Blount County Landfill on Bowers Ln for most residents, and dramatically closer than driving out of county to a Knox transfer station.

Where the yard sits

245 Brookdale Rd, Maryville, TN 37801. Off Old Niles Ferry Road, about 8 minutes off US-129. If you're coming from Alcoa, get off US-129 at the Louisville Rd exit, head south, right on Brookdale. If you're coming from central Maryville, take Broadway to Old Niles Ferry, west, then Brookdale.

There's a sign at the gate. If your truck can hold a load of concrete, it can get in and out of our yard.

What you save

Clean concrete and asphalt drop off free. No tipping fee, any truck size from pickups to tri-axles, contractor or homeowner.

Compare against Blount County Landfill's ~$60/ton for concrete:

• 3-ton pickup load: saves ~$180
• 7-ton dump trailer load: saves ~$420
• 14-ton dump truck load: saves ~$840
• 20-ton roll-off load: saves ~$1,200

Over a busy quarter, that's real margin. Mixed or dirty loads are the exception: call (865) 999-0857 before you haul those. For more on the landfill side, see concrete disposal options in Blount County.

Hauling options if you don't self-haul

Sometimes it makes more sense to have someone else move the load. We can arrange dump trailers (about 7 tons / 3.5 yards), roll-offs, and dump trucks (about 14 tons / 10 yards). Which one fits depends on the job.

Rather than post a rate card, we quote each haul off distance from our Maryville yard, equipment size, and trip count. Send the specs through the tear-out calculator or call (865) 999-0857 and we'll get you a number. Same equipment costs more in Knox or Sevier than in Blount because the drive is longer. See trucking for more.

When to pick which:

• Small job, one shot: dump trailer trip. Usually the cheapest per load for small residential.
• 1-2 day job with rolling load-out: roll-off. Container sits, crew fills gradually, within weight limits.
• Multi-day tear-out or bigger commercial: roll-off or dump truck rotation.
• 5+ loads: call for a project quote on the hauling.

Rough job examples in each Blount city

Maryville residential driveway tear-out (1,200 sq ft, 4-inch unreinforced). Weight: ~30 tons broken. That's roughly 4 dump-trailer trips. Tipping at SMSG: $0. Tipping at Blount Landfill: 30 x about $60 = about $1,800. Same hauling either direction, about $1,800 back on the job in tipping alone.

Alcoa commercial pad rebuild (3,000 sq ft, 6-inch reinforced). Weight: ~116 tons. This is project-quote territory on hauling. Tipping at SMSG: $0. Tipping through the landfill: 116 x about $60 = about $6,960. On a commercial pad, that's the kind of number that decides whether the bid works.

Rockford residential sidewalk replacement (400 sq ft, 4-inch). Weight: ~10 tons. 2 dump-trailer trips. Tipping at SMSG: $0. Landfill tipping: about $600.

Louisville waterfront pad demo (600 sq ft, 4-inch). Weight: ~15 tons. One dump truck load. Tipping at SMSG: $0. Landfill tipping: about $900.

Friendsville residential (900 sq ft, 4-inch). Weight: ~23 tons. 3 dump-trailer trips. Tipping at SMSG: $0. Landfill tipping: about $1,380.

All of these treat the hauling side as a per-job quote and assume you already own or are renting the demo equipment. Break-up cost is separate. See the post on tear-out cost in Tennessee for the break-up side.

What we accept and what we don't

Blount County contractors know this by muscle memory but new haulers get tripped up here.

Yes, free when clean:

• Broken concrete slab, sidewalk, curb, foundation walls, footings
• Concrete with embedded rebar or wire mesh, no extraction needed
• Broken asphalt slab and millings
• Brick, block, and natural stone
• Chunks large or small, any residential-sized piece

Call ahead:

• Clean fill dirt (accepted only with a call ahead)

No:

• Mixed C&D loads (wood, drywall, roofing, tile mixed in)
• Concrete with hazardous coatings, epoxy tank liners, painted-in-bulk lot markings
• Dirt or clay in significant volume mixed with concrete
• Anything asbestos-related
• Fuel or oil-contaminated concrete from spill sites
• Trash or household waste

If you're not sure about a load, call (865) 999-0857 before you leave the site. We'd rather take a call than turn a truck at the gate.

Drop-off flow (first time)

1. Turn in from Brookdale Rd. Sign at the entrance.
2. Tell the attendant your name, company, and load type (concrete or asphalt). No scale.
3. Get pointed to the correct pile. Concrete goes one place, asphalt another. We keep them separate for cleaner RCA and RAP products on the outbound side.
4. Dump. Take a minute to knock off any big clods from tires before leaving the pile.
5. Exit back to Brookdale Rd.

The whole process, no line, runs 8 to 15 minutes. Weekday mornings and late afternoons are the busiest. Show up in the middle of the day and you'll fly through.

What you can pick up on the way out

If you're tearing out and rebuilding, we sell outbound material too. Concrete crushed and screened from the piles you're dropping off gets sold back into new construction as:

• RCA crusher run: 1" minus with fines, compacts hard for base, driveways, and pads
• RCA #57: clean recycled concrete, roughly 3/4" to 1", no fines, for drainage

Call (865) 999-0857 for current pricing, and see the aggregate for sale page for details. Sizing your rebuild aggregate is the job of the gravel calculator. Many of the contractors we see drop off in the morning circle back in the afternoon to pick up base material for the same job site.

Closing the loop like this shaves per-project cost on both sides. It also makes the LEED narrative easier if you're bidding green work.

Setting up a contractor account

For contractors buying aggregate or booking hauls on more than a few Blount County jobs per year, a contractor account gets you:

• Consolidated invoicing across material and trucking
• Payment terms after credit review
• One contact for scheduling hauls

Drop-off itself is free with or without an account. The application is online at /accounts. Or contact us and we'll walk you through it.

Blount County landfill: when it still makes sense

Being straight: sometimes the landfill is the right call.

• Truly mixed C&D loads where you can't cost-effectively separate concrete on-site.
• Contaminated concrete from environmental sites, spill areas, or hazardous demo.

For everything else in Blount County, the recycling yard wins on cost and speed. We're closer to Maryville, Alcoa, Rockford, Louisville, and Friendsville than most contractors would guess. Louisville, in particular, gets undercounted because people think of the landfill as "just up the road" when it's actually longer than the shot to Brookdale via US-411.

SR 33 and the north-Blount jobs

For Friendsville, Greenback, and the northern edge of the county, SR 33 is the main artery. From those job sites, hop on SR 33 south, US-321/Louisville Rd east, then Old Niles Ferry to Brookdale. Around 20 to 25 minutes with clear traffic.

If you're coming from Loudon County jobs on the western edge, US-411 is your route. Same 20 to 25 minute range. We see a lot of Lenoir City and Loudon contractors coming this direction. See our Loudon County post.

Related reading

• Concrete Disposal Options in Blount County TN: Costs and Locations: the deeper breakdown of every disposal option in the county.
• Concrete Disposal Near Me: East TN Complete Guide: homeowner-friendly piece with the same yard info, useful to share with your customers.
• Free Concrete Drop-Off: what qualifies as a clean load.

Size a specific tear-out on the concrete tear-out calculator or call (865) 999-0857. Yard at 245 Brookdale Rd, Maryville, TN. Mon-Fri 7 AM to 5 PM, Sat 8 AM to noon.