Dog Poop Removal in Surf City, NC

Service on both sides of the bridge

Surf City is unusual in that it straddles two counties — the town sits in both Onslow and Pender, with the line running through it — and it spreads across the mainland side as well as the island itself. We service all of it. The mainland neighborhoods off NC-50 and the island streets running down toward Topsail Beach are on the same weekly routes.

Since the new 65-foot high-rise bridge opened in 2018 and replaced the old 1954 swing bridge, getting across has stopped being the ordeal it used to be. No more waiting on the hour for the span to close. That’s genuinely why we can keep island pricing the same as mainland pricing — the drive is predictable now, even in July.

What we handle around here

Year-round homes on weekly or bi-weekly service, mainland and island. Vacation rentals with Saturday and Sunday turnovers — see our rental turnover service. Sandy yards, which behave differently from mainland lots and get worked differently. And neighborhood groups: get three houses on your street signed up and everyone drops to neighborhood pricing.

Sandy yards take a different eye

If your yard is more sand than grass — and plenty of Surf City yards are — waste breaks down and gets buried faster than it does on a mainland lawn. It doesn’t sit neatly on top waiting to be found. That means a proper sweep here takes longer and needs someone actually looking rather than walking a quick loop.

It’s also why we don’t rake or dig. On a sandy lot that just spreads the problem around. We work the surface thoroughly, on a grid, and we get what’s there.

Growing fast

Surf City had about 1,393 residents in 2000. By the 2020 census it was 3,867— nearly triple in twenty years. The town’s own motto is “Big enough to be competitive, small enough to be happy,” and that’s about right. It also means a lot of newer streets where everybody arrived around the same time and nobody has a yard service sorted yet, which is exactly the situation neighborhood pricing was built for.

The 28445 thing

Surf City shares ZIP code 28445 with Holly Ridge and Topsail Beach, across two different counties — which is why your online orders occasionally think you live somewhere else and why sales tax sometimes lands in the wrong county’s column. It confuses plenty of service companies too.

It doesn’t confuse us. We schedule by street, not by ZIP, so it makes no difference to your service day.