The high cost of protecting non-native microscopic fathead minnows is going to bankrupt California. Atwater - now the fourth Golden State city to start down the bankruptcy path this year - is being torpedoed in part due to the growing strength of the Environmental Perfection movement. Cost overruns for a $90 million state mandated state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant are hitting the 28,000 residents hard in the Merced County community.