If basis of your claims is same article that has been posted here. it says here:<p>&gt;  $180,917 in expenses for sampling, water tests, laboratory supplies, and more.<p>This is the out of pocket expense they are talking about. It doesn&#x27;t even involve the hours spent. So unless you can disapprove that sampling costs for water tests didn&#x27;t cost $166,487 - we have little reason to trust your claim.<p>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.<p>There is time and place to be cynical but I don&#x27;t think this is the one. I personally can&#x27;t applaud them enough for work them have done.