The City of Cape Coral, Florida, is suing global contractor MWH Americas Inc., according to the January 11 edition of the Cape Coral News-Press, "for access to records it wants in order to complete an audit started in 2006... to satisfy questions of whether MWH overcharged the city for its work under a 1999 contract."

Los Osos has been compared before to New Orleans, and Los Osos’ historical lack of infrastructure to a man-made Hurricane Katrina. Los Osos has also been compared to New Orleans because of San Luis Obispo County’s long track record of government corruption and New Orleans’ legendary and lingering struggles with it. Now the twin disasters have something else in common that ties them and all the corruption that envelops them together: MWH. But will the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors even notice they failed to notice that MWH poses a huge problem for the Los Osos Wastewater Project?

Rebuffed by Los Osos and the courts of San Luis Obispo County, urban wastewater cowboy Tom Murphy, proprietor of “The Reclamator” onsite system, is back pawing familiar ground and has turned himself into a perpetual suit-filing machine. His target for the new year: Everybody. Holed up in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, Murphy has been firing off rounds of lawyerless suits in federal courts against the federal government, the EPA, the State of California, and Lake Havasu City. Filing suits is nothing new for Murphy – it’s always been his calling card -- but he may have already played all his cards and used up his suit quota for 2010 just in January and February alone.

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