Stormward Group

For owners of stormwater inspection and maintenance firms

The firms county inspectors trust.
One company.

Stormward Group is building a national stormwater company from the firms that set the standard. When a stormwater inspection, BMP maintenance or MS4 support firm joins, its inspectors and crew leads keep running the field work, and its finance, safety and permit paperwork move to one shared program.

See if your firm qualifiesRead the questions owners ask
Size
$500K to $10MEBITDA a year
Where
Anywherein the United States
The work
Stormwater inspection or BMP maintenanceMS4 support too

Your crews.
Your customers.
Your name on the trucks.

Each one is settled with you before closing: who keeps running your crews, who your property managers and city staff call, and what goes on the doors. See how in the questions owners ask.

The Stormward standard

Your crews run the routes. We run the paperwork.

We work from a written integration playbook, built on add-on acquisitions in another services business. Your firm’s 100-day plan is written from it, with you.

What a firm brings
  • Customers who come back on a permit or inspection cycle.
  • Inspectors who hold CPESC or CESSWI, and QSD or QSP in California.
  • Crews that maintain ponds, bioretention cells and treatment devices.
  • A safety record that municipal clients approve.
What Stormward puts in after a firm joins
  • Books, billing, collections and payroll move to one finance team in the first year. Your managers stay the people your municipal staff and property managers call.
  • Confined space programs, training records and the safety paperwork municipal contracts ask for, kept current in one place.
  • Municipal bids, developer agreements and maintenance plans for property managers and HOAs.
  • Field forms, photos and inspection reports for each permit in one system, chosen with your inspectors.
  • Vacuum and jet trucks and crews the 100-day plan calls for, paid for with capital raised alongside each partnership.
  • CPESC and CESSWI exam prep for inspectors, and QSD and QSP training in California.
  • A bench of experienced operators and finance executives from our network, on call to you and your managers after closing.

Questions owners ask

Who is paying for this?

For each purchase, Worthings Court Capital arranges a bank loan and raises equity from a small group of capital partners for that deal. You meet them after our review and before closing. Bonding companies and municipal clients may ask about the new owner. We prepare those answers with you.

How would I be paid?

The price is paid mostly in cash at closing, from the bank loan and the equity raised for the deal. Part can come later, as a note (the company owes you the balance and pays it over a set number of years) or as a payment tied to results. If you want to, you can also take part of the price as a share of the larger company. The mix is written into the letter of intent.

Do I have to stay, and for how long?

We ask the owner to stay for a transition period. Its length, your title and your pay are written into the letter of intent. Part of that period goes to choosing and training the person who runs the company after you.

What happens to my inspectors and crews?

We keep your inspectors, crew leads and office staff in their roles, with their certifications and training records carried over. Any change to pay, benefits or titles is agreed with you before closing.

Will my customers or employees find out?

Not from us. We sign a confidentiality agreement before you send anything, and we do not contact your customers, employees, suppliers or bank without your permission. Before closing, we agree with you when and how each group is told.

What happens to the name?

How the decision is made goes into the letter of intent, and the decision itself is made with you before closing. We look at which municipal contracts, maintenance agreements and vendor registrations are held in your name, what your trucks and invoices say, and what a change would cost you in re-registration.

What is my company worth?

Mostly it depends on how much steady profit the company makes after paying everyone, including a fair salary for you, and on how much of the work repeats each year. The letter of intent states the price and how we got to it.

Why sell to Stormward rather than a larger environmental services company?

A larger company usually folds a firm it buys into one of its divisions. At Stormward, your inspectors and crew leads keep running the work, and you can take part of the price as a share of what the company becomes.

Is it a waste of your time to talk if I am not sure I want to sell?

No. A first call commits you to nothing, and if you decide not to sell, that ends it.

How it works

  1. Call

    A confidential call of about 30 minutes. You tell us about the company and what you want next.

  2. Review

    We sign a confidentiality agreement, then read three years of financials and your largest contracts. If something would make us pass, we say so at this stage.

  3. Letter of intent

    A short letter with the price, how it is paid, your role after closing and how the name will be decided. The final purchase agreement is written from it.

  4. Meet the money

    Before closing, you meet the lender and the equity partners paying for the purchase.

  5. Close

    Closing, then a 100-day plan written with you and your managers.

Choose how you step back

Step back

Sell all of it. You stay for a transition period set in the letter of intent, and you help choose and train the person who runs the company after you.

Stay on

Sell most of it, take part of the price as a share of the larger company, and keep running the crews and your largest accounts, with a title and pay agreed before closing.

Bring your family

Family members who work in the business keep their roles, with pay and titles agreed before closing, and one of them can be the successor you train.

The mix of cash at closing, a note, a payment tied to results and a share of the company is written into the letter of intent.

The work we look for

  • Construction SWPPP inspection
  • Post-construction BMP inspection
  • Pond, bioretention and treatment device maintenance
  • Sediment and vegetation removal
  • MS4 program support
  • Outfall screening and illicit discharge detection

EBITDA is operating profit before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Why stormwater

Construction sites under EPA’s general permit are inspected at least every 7 calendar days, or every 14 days and within 24 hours of a storm of 0.25 inches or more. EPA proposed the permit’s replacement in August 2026 with the same frequency. Most states issue their own construction permits.

Ponds and other controls built for a project outlast it. Cities and counties with small MS4 permits must make sure those controls are maintained for the long term, and states set the inspection cycle: at least every 3 years in Maryland and every 5 years in Virginia.

Each inspection finds maintenance someone has to do. Firms with CPESC and CESSWI inspectors, and QSD and QSP holders in California, do most of both.

One pond over ten years
Inspections of one pond after construction, at the minimum frequencies Maryland and Virginia set. Other states set their own cycles.

EPA 2022 Construction General Permit: covers Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, DC, most territories and most of Indian Country, and expires February 16, 2027; replacement proposed August 2026. 40 CFR 122.34(b)(5): long-term operation and maintenance under small MS4 permits. COMAR 26.17.02.11 (Maryland). 9VAC25-875-140 (Virginia).

Wet pond cross-sectionA stormwater wet pond in section. Runoff enters through an inflow pipe into a forebay that traps sediment. A submerged berm separates it from the permanent pool. A riser with a trash rack and a small orifice controls release through a barrel pipe that runs under the embankment to a riprap apron. An emergency spillway is cut into the embankment crest. Freeboard is the height between the design storm peak and the top of the embankment. During a storm the water rises to the design storm peak, then drains back to the permanent pool. Top of embankment Emergency spillway Design storm peak Permanent pool Freeboard Inflow Forebay Riser Sediment builds up here Barrel Riprap Wet pond cross-sectionA stormwater wet pond in section. Runoff enters through an inflow pipe into a forebay that traps sediment. A submerged berm separates it from the permanent pool. A riser with a trash rack and a small orifice controls release through a barrel pipe that runs under the embankment to a riprap apron. An emergency spillway is cut into the embankment crest. Freeboard is the height between the design storm peak and the top of the embankment. During a storm the water rises to the design storm peak, then drains back to the permanent pool. Top of embankment Emergency spillway Design storm peak Permanent pool Freeboard Inflow Forebay Riser Sediment builds up here Barrel Riprap
A wet pond in section. The forebay traps sediment, the riser orifice meters the release, and the barrel carries it under the embankment to the riprap. Each of these parts is on the inspection checklist.

For brokers and advisors

Send a teaser, a blind profile or a name. Every introduction gets a reply within one business day.

Where a fee agreement with us applies, it is signed before we see confidential information and paid as written.

The size bar is about $500,000 to $10 million a year of EBITDA, anywhere in the United States.

Use the form below and choose “Advisor or broker,” or write to the address in the footer.

Start with a conversation.

Owners and their advisors are welcome. Every introduction is confidential.

What happens next
  • We read every message and reply within one business day.
  • If it looks like a fit, we set up a 30-minute call at a time that suits you.
  • Nothing you send goes to a lender or equity partner until you agree to it.

Or write to [email protected].

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Los Angeles, CA 90067