Nestucca Valley Sanitary Service

Nestucca Valley Sanitary Service has been serving South Tillamook County for more than 60 years! This website is here to help you find the services to dispose of your garbage, maximize your recycling and keep Oregon clean and green. Take a look around the site. You'll find lots of tips and useful information. 

In the summer of 1949, newlyweds Roy and Eleanor Dye ventured from Turlock, California to their first home in Cloverdale, Oregon. Their home was not unusual. However, the mortgage came with a 1930 flatbed truck and a receipt for the purchase of the Cloverdale Garbage route! In order to supplement the small business, Roy worked several other jobs over the years, including school bus driver, log mill worker, Oregon State Road crewman and gas station attendant. Eleanor was the bookkeeper and prepared the handwritten bills at the kitchen table for their small customer base. In the meantime, two children rounded out the family; son Tom and daughter Sandy.

Eventually, the Dyes purchased the Beaver and Neskowin customer list and combined the routes. Tom Edwards, Eleanor's father would help fill the driver's seat when Roy was on the other job. Later in the 1960s, Roy was able to focus exclusively on managing and driving the garbage route and Eleanor worked for the Tillamook and Nestucca School Districts.

A rural garbage company, Nestucca Valley Sanitary Service (NVSS) was providing service for the small communities in South Tillamook County and covered 350 square miles of sparsely populated dairy and forested areas. As many solid waste companies in the 1970s, NVSS found itself adjusting to the new rules and regulations set forth through federal and state govenment agencies. Tillamook County residents and extensive environmental requirements prevented the relocation of another landfill in the county, so both Tillamook County Landfill and the Pacific City Dump locations were closed by DEQ in the early '80s, and transfer stations were built on the sites to transport all garbage collected to a contracted landfill outside of the county. The Pacific City Dump was reinvented as a small 'satellite' recycling and self-haul location for the convenience of the South Tillamook County residents and was managed by Nestucca Valley Sanitary Service.

In 1984, 60 year old Roy passed away of congestive heart failure while preparing the truck to start the day's route. Two weeks prior, he had walked his daughter, Sandy, down the wedding aisle. Eleanor had a difficult decision to make; sell the business that she and Roy had worked so hard to build, or accept the challenge of continuing to build into the future. As one of the first women to own and manage a garbage business in Oregon, she took that challenge, purchased a new truck and rode on the garbage truck to chronicle and update the customer database for NVSS's first computer program.

Eleanor's focus never waivered from the business vision she and her busband began to build as newlyweds in 1949. As one of the first women to serve on the early Oregon State DEQ's public relations committee, she participated in drafting early recycling programs. Eleanor spent a great deal of her personal time traveling throughout the state, encouraging other small garbage businesses to keep their voice in the solid waste industry.

In 1984, Eleanor and her friend Judy (Nielson) Hansen, co-founded the original Oregon Beach Clean-up, which has lead to present national and international events. (Click here to see SOLV's 25th Anniversary article on the Oregon Beach Clean-up.)

By 1993, daughter Sandy had established a career in media, marketing and public relations; she and her 8 year old daughter Allison left Portland and moved back to Hebo to regroup after the death of her husband. Eleanor decided to extend an offer to Sandy to stay and work together to build the business.

Son Tom, upon graduating from Portland State University in 1974, served with the Tillamook County Sheriff's Department, retiring in 2000, after 30 years and two consecutive terms as Sheriff.

61 years later, this little business, which began with nothing more than a house, a 1930 flatbed truck and a receipt for the Cloverdale Garbage Route, now employs five full-time and two part-time employees within our local South Tillamook County area. Eleanor has semi-retired and daughter Sandy and son-in-law Paul Carbaugh manage all aspects of NVSS operations. Their collective goal is to continue to provide excellent service and expand material handling and disposal opportunities for South Tillamook County.

Choose from a variety of services to fit your lifestyle!

Full time residents can choose between One Can Once a Week and One Can Every Other Week. On Call Service is convenient and available to second home owners and vacation rental homes. This service is popular because you chose the number of pick-ups you need and schedule the pickup dates!

We've got what it takes to get the job done!
Nestucca Valley Sanitary Service can meet your needs for household clean-outs, remodeling and construction projects, too! We have multiple container sizes to do your job quickly and efficiently as well as disposing materials legally and environmentally safe at the Tillamook Transfer Station.