Camelot is the landfill that confuses everyone, and the confusion is structural: it is owned by the City of Farmers Branch, it sits inside the Lewisville city limits at 580 Huffines Boulevard, and the free-dumping rights attached to it belong to residents of several other cities. It is a 460-acre Type 1 municipal solid waste site, which means it accepts everything bar hazardous waste.

Whether you pay depends entirely on which city sends your water bill, and the allowances are not the same. Carrollton residents get up to six cubic yards a month, residential only, in a personal vehicle - commercial trucks and trailers cannot dump under that programme. Flower Mound residents get one trip a month of up to ten cubic yards, with anything above that charged, plus an extra charge for non-compactables like brick, concrete and composition shingles. Lewisville residents whose curbside provider is Republic get two free dumping privileges a month, provided the waste is not from their own commercial activity.

All three arrangements share the same two conditions, and both are enforced at the scale house. You must present a current water bill and a driver's licence with matching address. And the load must be covered by a tarp or tied down - Carrollton says outright that uncovered materials will be rejected, Lewisville says fees will be charged. That tarp is the difference between free and not free.

For a sense of scale when you are budgeting: a couch is roughly two cubic yards, a large fridge about 1.75, a queen mattress about one, a washer or dryer about half. Six cubic yards is less than it sounds once furniture is involved. Businesses get no allowance and pay a tipping fee, and Farmers Branch does not publish that rate publicly, so ring the landfill on 817.317.2000 before hauling anything commercial. Household hazardous waste is not taken here at all - each city runs separate collection events for it.