Achieve
Help you reach the financial outcome you have been working toward for thirty years.
Septic · Liquid waste · Portable sanitation
We partner with the best environmental companies in the Midwest.
An alliance of family-owned service businesses across seven states.
What we are
Bur Oak is not a private equity firm and not a national competitor moving into your market. We are an alliance of like-minded owner-operators. We buy family-owned septic, liquid waste and portable sanitation businesses, and we run them rather than flip them.
Every company that joins keeps its name, its logo, its phone number and its people. What changes is what sits underneath: the back office, the fleet capital, the recruiting pipeline and the disposal capacity that a single operator was never going to build alone.
Why owners partner with us
Our alliance mission.
Facilitate
Build the exit around your timeline, whether that is next year or year ten.
Grow
Put trucks, crews, demand and disposal capacity behind a route book that has been capped for years.
Benefit
Leave your people better off, and your customers unable to tell that anything changed.
Autonomy
Strength in numbers, with the power of autonomy.
You keep operational control of the business you built. Pricing, scheduling, hiring, and how a job actually gets done stay with you.
What you gain is the economics of belonging to a larger, well-resourced group: fleet financed at scale, benefits a five-truck company cannot buy, a recruiting pipeline that actually produces licensed operators, and receiving capacity that keeps your trucks close to home.
Who we look for
You probably already know if this is you.
We are deliberately narrow. Better to be the obvious buyer for forty companies than a possible buyer for four hundred.
- $1.5M–$25M revenue, profitable, owner-operated
- A recurring base — routes, contracts or rental fleets
- Septic, liquid waste or portable sanitation, or all three
- Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan or the Dakotas
- Owned disposal, or a durable plant relationship
- Low turnover and licensed operators on staff
Where we buy
Midwest values, Midwest focus.
Seven states, chosen on purpose — the densest concentration of onsite systems in the country.
Acquisition footprint
Priority — MN, WI Active — IA, IL, MI Selective — ND, SD
Start here
Built to outlast.
Thirty or fifty years of work deserves a buyer who plans to keep it.
A first conversation is thirty minutes. No documents, no NDA, no obligation. Everything stays between us.
Scott@buroakenvironmental.com · (262) 749-0005