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Why You Should Contract Arizona’s Best Water Management Firm In one word? Legacy. In another word? Know-how. My name is Dave Bartholomew. My family-run company, Bartholomew Water Services, was founded by my father, Richard Bartholomew. Dad played a key role in founding Arizona’s Department of Environmental Quality. He understood water and water systems backwards and forwards. He knew that water is Earth’s more precious resource … and how particularly true this is in desert terrain such as we find in Arizona. Today, I’m proud that my son has become my foreman. Together, we help plan, build, maintain, and operate precious water management systems all over the state. We’re particularly active in Maricopa County, where so much economic activity takes place. We know that the State of Arizona is constantly expanding. New residential, office, and mixed use developments are being built all the time. We also know what happens when these sites aren’t constructed correctly. We know the massive expenses they can create for real estate developers, investors, homeowners, and workaday people. Don’t let that happen to you. Visit our website today at bwsinconline.com. It’s our pleasure to help save you money, time, and headaches … … all while ensuring that one of our most precious natural resources will always be there for us. #arizona #water #watermanagement #wastewater #phoenix #landdeveloper #sewer

If You’re an Arizona Real Estate Developer, Why Haven’t You Called Us?!? Let’s say that you live in Arizona and you’re a wastewater management expert. In other words, let’s say that you’re me. Here’s the typical setup you find when you get a call to come to a brand new residential complex: Lift station with a forced main that pushes to a gravity sewer that dumps itself into a municipal street system. Which, at that point, carries the wastewater to a processing plant for recycling. Got all that? Okay, probably not. But that’s why I’m in business. And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone out to a brand new site where they trusted their project engineer to do everything correctly … Only to find that this person had no idea what they were doing. From a wastewater perspective, I mean. Imagine letting your owners move into their new residences and having the sewers back up. Or imagine the adjacent commercial complex you built blowing a water main. Believe me, I’ve seen it all. I’ve heard the wailing, the gnashing of teeth. I’ve seen the tears. I’ve watched the money get spent. When it shouldn’t have. There’s an alternative. My name is Dave Bartholomew. My company, Bartholomew Water Services, is a three-generation family business that services all of Arizona, with special focus on Maricopa County. Do yourself a favor. Plan ahead and call us today. We’ll audit your wastewater management build for a fraction of the cost to repair it when something goes wrong. In other words, we’ll save you money and headaches. Now honestly, who wouldn’t want that? #arizona #wastewater #sewer #wastewatermanagement

While #Houston may not have as many regulations as some other regions across Texas, major municipalities have elective tree regulations, and many have moderate regulations depending on municipality. This can still cause major headaches during the planning and permitting phases of your project. Never fear - the Tree Mann Solutions team is here. With Jason Alfaro as our Houston Market Manager, you're in good hands! We'll help guide you through planning, permitting, and preservation to make sure you get the job done right. #TreeMannSolutions | #savetimesavemoneysavetrees | #houstontx | #centraltexas | #treesurvey | #siteplanning | #permitting | #commercialdevelopment | #treepreservation | #teamwork | #growth | #texas

Why Every Contractor, Engineer, and Private Homeowner in Arizona Should Call Us Right Now Drive around The Grand Canyon State. What do you see? Dozens if not hundreds of construction projects. These include residential, commercial, and mixed use sites. And they all need something most people never bother to stop and think about. They all need wastewater management systems. Which, according to local and state laws, are privately owned by the project itself. Which means that they have to be planned, built, operated, and maintained according to complex regulations. Sadly, most real estate developers don’t have a clue as to what they’re doing when they build a sewer system. Even worse, a sewer system’s inherent flaws often pop up years down the line. By that point, the developer’s long gone. It becomes the homeowner or site owner’s problem. And believe me, it can get expensive. That’s why I want you to visit our website today: bwsinconline.com. My name is Dave Bartholomew. My family-owned business is Bartholomew Water Services. Put simply, we’re experts in saving you money. We can audit your existing sewer system and get to know its profile … … then operate and maintain that system in perpetuity so that nothing serious ever goes wrong. An ounce of prevention is worth a gallon of cure. Don’t wait. Contact us today. #phoenix #wastewater #watermanagement #arizona #sewer #sewermanagement #familybusiness #videomarketing

Many Times, Wastewater Isn’t Your City’s Problem … It’s Yours I recently visited what I like to call Phoenix’s boom town, the valley out west of the city. So much development’s taking place out there.  Seems like new projects are breaking ground wherever you look.  I’d been called to check up on a mixed use residential-commercial property. Condos coupled with office towers. A ton of complex infrastructure.  From a water perspective, that’s a lot of things that can go wrong … if you don’t hire an expert.  My job on this particular site was to make sure the wastewater from all those buildings dumped properly into the municipal sewer system.  Once that happened, it was the city’s problem. Until that happened, the land owners were on the hook.  My name is Dave Bartholomew. My company’s name is Bartholomew Water Services. If you’re a homeowner, head of a homeowner’s association, or a real estate developer, I hope you’ll give me a call.  In the long run, my company can save you money—either by helping you plan your system the right way or maintaining it once it’s been built. Either way, you stand to profit.  Give us a call: 602-692-7648 We protect Arizona’s most precious resource, WATER! #wastewater #watermanagement #phoenix #arizona #sewer #HOA #landdevelopment

I know that it’s cold out and there’s an inch or two of snow on the ground today but Spring is only nine weeks away! 🌤️🌱🌾🌹🌼🌺🌻🌸 So, a big question for many of our friends in the industry…are your stormwater management facilities “up to snuff” and compliant? 👍🏻💧💦 Muller, Inc. is your one-stop-shop for all post construction stormwater services. Our certified team of stormwater experts can provide inspection, maintenance and compliance reporting for all types of stormwater facilities. From retention and detention ponds to underground infrastructure and Stormwater BMPs, our experienced personnel and fleet of specialized equipment allow us to maintain any type of stormwater infrastructure. We regularly inspect and maintain stormwater infrastructure on behalf of municipalities, commercial property owners, industrial operators, property, management firms, homebuilders and homeowners throughout Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC. As always, let us know if we can help! Specialized. Sustainable. Site Services. #StormwaterManagement #StormwaterMaintenance #GreenInfrastructure #DetentionPonds #BioRetentionFacilities #RainGardens #DrySwales #DetentionVaults #StormFilters #StormDrains #StormTech #InfiltrationSystems #PermeablePavements #Virginia #Maryland #WashingtonDC #Midlantic #ServiceAbility #GeneralContractors #Developers #Homebuilders #PropertyManagers #TeamMuller www.mullerec.com

We hope this finds you doing wonderfully and enjoying your Fall wherever this finds you. While some markets are facing headwinds and rising interest rates have frozen some parts of the market, we remain active, interested, and committed.   Evolution Strategy Partners (“Evolution”), a differentiated private equity firm based in Austin, TX, continues to seek new platform partnership opportunities within essential industrial, infrastructure, and business services sectors. Evolution is eager to continue its successful and growing track record of partnering with entrepreneur-operated businesses across the domestic lower middle market. We have a twenty-year track record of closing multiple platform and add-on acquisitions. We closed a large add-on deal earlier this year and currently have two more under LOI.   Evolution is committed to preserving and maintaining the legacies that founders and operators have built over the life of their companies. Evolution has closed on four platform transactions in just the last handful of years, deploying nearly $100 million of capital, and is actively involved with three companies that were acquired from their founders:   · Westco Grounds Maintenance, LLC: the preferred Houston-based commercial landscaping installation and maintenance provider; · ALLIED UNDERGROUND INC: a leading Austin-based infrastructure construction firm providing underground water, wastewater, and storm sewer construction primarily for industrial and commercial clients in Central Texas; · DiPonio Contracting, Inc.: a leading Detroit-based infrastructure maintenance and construction firm providing new and replacements/upgrades to aging and existing water, wastewater, and storm sewer systems for municipal, county, and state customers.   Evolution recognizes the vital role that essential businesses play in sustaining and building critical infrastructure across the U.S., and aims to support with the evaluation and execution of step-change organic and inorganic initiatives.   Evolution is currently seeking new platform and add-on acquisition opportunities with the criteria below: ·     Industrial, infrastructure, and business services deemed essential services; most industries except healthcare, technology, and energy ·     Revenue <$75 million and EBITDA <$10 million ·     Low to moderate capital intensity ·     Generally founder/family-owned and operated who are open to rollover / co-invest; succession planning is okay ·     Continental U.S.-based but generally not California ·     Pro forma Evolution ownership of 51-100%   Industries and subsectors of interest for Evolution include, but are not limited to: ·     Vegetation management ·     Cemetery services ·     Safety services ·     Facilities maintenance services ·     Light manufacturing ·     Food manufacturing Thank you for your time!

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