VENANGO COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 35 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Wells around Barkeyville tend to give plenty of water. Half of the 492 logs that record a yield show 20 gallons a minute or more, and a quarter show 38 or more, so a pump can usually be sized for the household rather than held back by the well. The Allegheny Formation is mapped under the town.
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WHAT WE DO IN BARKEYVILLE
Whether you’re on a private well or city water, the same crew handles the water source, the pressure, and what comes out of the tap.
EPA lists chlorine, permanganate, greensand filtration and ion-exchange softening for the Barkeyville Municipal Authority’s groundwater. A private well has none of that ahead of the tap, so a water test shows whether it needs a FerronX Iron System, a LuxSoft softener, or neither.
Rock arrives at a median 28 feet, but a quarter of logs didn’t reach it until 50 feet or more, and those lots usually need a longer run of casing. Total depth is middling: across the 552 depth logs within 5 miles, the town’s median is the sixth-deepest of 10 Venango County towns.
With a median yield of 20 gallons a minute and a lower quarter of 12, most wells here can feed a standard submersible pump and pressure tank. Wells in the top quarter, at 38 or more, leave headroom for livestock, irrigation or a second building.
WELLS AROUND BARKEYVILLE
The 552 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Barkeyville, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 69–135 ft
middle half 12–38 gpm
middle half 15–50 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
EPA’s record for the Barkeyville Municipal Authority lists two active wells, Well #2 and Well #4, and one treatment plant. Its steps cover disinfection with chlorine, iron and manganese removal with permanganate and greensand filtration, and softening by ion exchange. EPA also lists 4-log treatment of viruses, meaning all but a tiny share are killed. Homes on the authority’s lines get their water report from the utility.
A private well sends untreated groundwater straight to the house, so whether it needs any of those steps is a question for a water test, on site or through a certified lab. Some wells call for iron removal, some for a water softener, some for nothing. The county’s USGS samples cover only 7 wells, so your own result counts for more.
The Allegheny Formation is mapped at the town center: Pennsylvanian sandstone, shale, limestone, clay and coal in layers. The logs show how much the cover over rock varies from lot to lot. Of the 385 that record bedrock, a quarter found it within 15 feet and another quarter only at 50 feet or more.
That spread matters because casing usually runs down to rock, so a lot with deep soil takes more casing before the bit is working in rock. Total depth is the other part of the bill, and around Barkeyville a quarter of wells went past 135 feet. The cost page explains what moves the price, and residential drilling covers how a new well is permitted, drilled and finished.
WATER IN VENANGO COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Venango County, taken 1928–2023, 43% of wells were hard or very hard, 43% carried iron above the staining line, 40% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Venango County page; your own well gets its own test.
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NEARBY
We send the same crews to each of these towns. If you’re between towns, pick the closest one; the service doesn’t change.
A LITTLE CLARITY
Our Greenville office (854 Mercer Rd., Greenville, PA 16125) is about 35 minutes and 27 miles by road from Barkeyville. Service calls for Barkeyville are scheduled from there.
Barkeyville and the municipalities around it: Irwin Township, Harrisville, Marion Township, Mercer Township, Wolf Creek Township, Pine Township, Clintonville, Clinton Township, Grove City, Worth Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 10 Venango County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 552 domestic wells within 5 miles of Barkeyville: the median is 96 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 69 and 135 feet. The median well was logged at 20 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 28 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
EPA lists ion-exchange softening, the step that removes hardness, among the authority’s treatment steps, alongside iron and manganese removal with permanganate and greensand. Homes on its lines get the details in the utility’s water report. A private well has no such step, so only a test of that well measures its hardness, and a LuxSoft softener is the usual answer if it runs high.
Some will. A quarter of the 492 yield records around Barkeyville show 38 gallons a minute or more, which leaves room beyond household use, though a quarter show 12 or less. The Greenville office drills agricultural and commercial wells as well as residential ones, and designs the pump system around what the finished well gives. Call (724) 588-2652 to talk it through.
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