The transfer station at Canadian serves the city and the wider Hemphill County in the far north-east corner of the Texas Panhandle. It is a consolidation point rather than a landfill: waste is tipped here, loaded into larger trailers and hauled onward for disposal, which keeps a permitted landfill from having to exist in a county of a few thousand people.

The one rate the city publishes is a commercial one. Companies holding a transfer station account are billed $85.00 a ton for trash hauled to the site, a figure the city notes is subject to change. On top of that sits a $10.00 pull-off fee charged each time city personnel unload trash on the company's behalf, and a $15.00 scale fee for any vehicle weighed purely to obtain a weight ticket. Accounts are billed after the fact and payment falls due on receipt; if an account goes into arrears the city stops accepting deliveries until the balance, past due and current, is cleared in full.

No separate residential gate rate appears anywhere on the city's published material, and we will not invent one. Householders in Canadian are covered by the city's kerbside collection service, and anyone arriving with a self-hauled load should telephone 806-323-6473 to confirm what they will be charged before making the trip. Treating the commercial tonnage rate as a household price would be misleading.

The station is staffed from 08:00 to 17:00 on weekdays, plus a Saturday shift running 09:00 to 13:00. The station also runs alongside the city's recycling programme, and sanitation is administered from City Hall at 6 Main Street. Because the $85.00 figure comes from an account agreement form rather than a dated fee schedule, it is worth confirming currency by phone if you are budgeting a large commercial haul.