To expand its geographic footprint as well as add a valuable service increasingly requested by customers, Ontario-based Hurricane Hydrovac purchased Sewer Maintenance Services.
As implied by its name, SMS — which was renamed Hurricane Sewer Maintenance Services to reflect the Hurricane Hydrovac brand — provides sewer maintenance and inspection services. Hurricane Hydrovac already did sewer cleaning, but not inspections, which left a hole in its service offerings, says Shawn O’Keefe, co-owner of the company.
“We wanted to get into camera work for sewers and SMS had been doing it for many years,” O’Keefe says. “The owner was getting close to retirement age,
