If basis of your claims is same article that has been posted here. it says here: > $180,917 in expenses for sampling, water tests, laboratory supplies, and mo

If basis of your claims is same article that has been posted here. it says here: > $180,917 in expenses for sampling, water tests, laboratory supplies, and more. This is the out of pocket expense they are talking about. It doesn't even involve the hours spent. So unless you can disapprove that sampling costs for water tests didn't cost $166,487 - we have little reason to trust your claim. Regardless, lets say even if that $166,487 indeed includes their hourly rates for which no one was asked to be paid, their claim is justified. Heck no one asked them to do this in first place. There is time and place to be cynical but I don't think this is the one. I personally can't applaud them enough for work them have done.