More cameras are coming to North Texas— specifically, Fort Worth— and they’re headed to a spot you’ve likely never seen, but one illegal dumpers know far too well.

Tony Gutierrez, an environmental investigator for the city, walked along a partially paved road Tuesday, surrounded by thick woods with little to indicate it’s within Fort Worth city limits.

Gutierrez says he’s spent countless hours along Greenbelt Road cleaning up what others illegally leave behind.

“Just a lot of trash and debris,” Gutierrez said. “Furniture — we get it all here.”

And that cleanup comes at a cost. Over the past two years, taxpayers have spent about $85,000 on illegal dumping cleanup. That figure, Gutierrez noted, doesn’t include the cost of investigations or prosecutions.

“We have to travel sometimes out

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