Kingston TN Concrete and Asphalt Dump: Roane County Guide

If you're in Kingston with a trailer full of busted concrete or old asphalt, your dumping options are narrow. Roane County's public waste channels don't run a big construction-and-demolition operation for private contractors, and the nearest dedicated C&D landfill in Knoxville shuts down for the weekend. That leaves most Kingston jobs hunting for somewhere that will actually take the load.

Here's what your options really look like, and where a recycling yard fits into the picture.

What Kingston Contractors Currently Do

Most Roane County contractors end up hauling east to Knoxville or south to Chattanooga. Both are a real drive. Both charge per-ton at the scale. And both are Monday-through-Friday only, which kills your Saturday cleanup plans.

For a small remodel or a driveway tear-out, that's a full workday of round-trip just to get rid of the debris. If you're running a crew, that's expensive time.

The Maryville Alternative

Smoky Mountain Sand & Gravel sits about 40-55 miles east of Kingston. You've got two main routes:

• TN-72 south through Loudon, then east into Blount County
• I-40 east, then Alcoa Highway south

Either way it runs 45-55 minutes depending on traffic through Alcoa. The yard is a concrete and asphalt recycling operation, not a landfill. Clean loads drop off free, and nobody weighs you in or out.

Drive Time Honesty

The Maryville yard isn't the closest dump to Kingston. Here's the real comparison:

From Kingston to	Approximate drive
Knoxville C&D landfill	35-45 minutes
SMSG (Maryville)	45-55 minutes
Chattanooga C&D landfill	60-75 minutes

So Knoxville is closer on paper. What the Maryville yard has going for it is a Saturday morning gate, free drop-off for clean loads no matter the weight, and a much shorter in-and-out at the drop point.

If you can hit Knoxville during the week and your load is light, that's your shortest run. If you're working a Saturday, if your load is heavy, or if you'd rather not sit at a scale, the extra 10-15 minutes east is usually worth it.

The Watts Bar Lake Angle

A lot of Kingston work is lakefront: dock pads, boat ramp footings, seawall pours, driveways cutting down to the water, retaining walls on sloped lots. Those jobs generate mixed loads: broken concrete with some brick, chunks of asphalt from an old driveway, maybe some natural stone from a wall rebuild.

Those combinations are fine at our yard. You don't need to separate concrete from brick from stone. As long as the load is only those materials with no trash, wood, or dirt mixed in, it all gets processed the same way. If there's other debris in it, call (865) 999-0857 before you haul.

What You Can Drop

The yard accepts:

• Concrete, with or without rebar or wire mesh
• Asphalt (millings, chunks, tear-out slabs)
• Brick and block
• Natural stone
• Clean fill dirt, only with a call ahead

What doesn't fly:

• Household trash or bagged garbage
• Wood, drywall, or general construction debris
• Roofing shingles
• Painted or treated lumber
• Hazardous materials, chemicals, or fuel containers
• Loads mixed with any of the above

If your load is 90% clean concrete and 10% mixed junk, sort the junk out before you leave the job. It's better than getting turned away at the gate. More on what qualifies in what to do with broken concrete.

How It Works When You Arrive

Drive up during operating hours. Staff checks the load at the gate and directs you to the dump area. Back in, tip the load, and roll out. Clean loads are free. Ten to fifteen minutes on-site for a typical single vehicle.

No paperwork, no weigh tickets, no waiting on a scale house. You don't need an account. You don't need to call ahead for a small load.

Working a Kingston, Harriman, or Rockwood job and need somewhere to drop concrete or asphalt on a Saturday? Smoky Mountain Sand & Gravel is 45-55 minutes east in Maryville, open Monday through Friday 7 AM to 5 PM and Saturday 8 AM to noon. Call (865) 999-0857 with route or load questions before you head out.

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