Aliso Creek awash in fecal bacteria.(The Orange County Register)

SANTA ANA, Calif. _ The Kite Hill neighborhood of Laguna Niguel has been the whipping boy for ocean-polluting suburbia for almost two years.

Residents have been horrified with their link to high fecal coliform bacteria that washed from their streets to Aliso Creek, and into the ocean.

Now they have plenty of company.

Fecal bacteria is everywhere. In Aliso Creek, that is.

A report released Tuesday by Orange County officials shows that fecal coliform levels are high along all 11 miles of Aliso Creek _ from Mission Viejo all the way downstream to where it spills into the ocean at Laguna Beach.

"We've been saying all along that we don't see any difference between this neighborhood and any other neighborhood," said Ken Montgomery, Laguna Niguel director of public works.

"Basically it's a societal thing," he said. "If you have a lawn and irrigation and a typical suburban environment, ...