CRAWFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 55 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Around Blooming Valley, the well logs stand out for evenly matched yields more than for depth. Of 496 logs that record one, a quarter came in at 12 gallons per minute or less, and the median and the upper quarter both sit at 20. Rock lies close to the surface, at a median 23 feet, so most of a typical hole is drilled in rock.
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WHAT WE DO IN BLOOMING VALLEY
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.
Crawford County’s USGS well samples lean hard: 77% of 35 wells tested hard or very hard, at a median 9.6 grains per gallon. A water test tells a Blooming Valley household whether a LuxSoft softener fits, and whether iron or manganese has to come out ahead of it.
Three in four of the 500 depth logs went 70 feet or deeper, and the upper quarter reached 111. The rock mapped at the town center is Late Devonian shale, sandstone and siltstone. Chatfield drills by air rotary or cable tool and offers PA DEP permit assistance.
With the middle half of yields between 12 and 20 gallons per minute, the pump is usually sized to the household’s peak use rather than squeezed down to a weak well. A constant-pressure upgrade keeps a shower steady when another tap opens.
WELLS AROUND BLOOMING VALLEY
The 500 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Blooming Valley, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 70–111 ft
middle half 12–20 gpm
middle half 14–40 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
Of the 496 logs within 5 miles that record a yield, the middle half runs from 12 to 20 gallons per minute, and the median and upper quarter are the same 20. It’s a tight band. A single hole can still come in under 12, though, so the flow test on your own well is the number that counts.
What a well gives is measured when it’s drilled, and again at any well inspection. With a yield in this band, the pump choice turns on the house: how many people and bathrooms, and whether anyone waters a garden or stock. A submersible pump and a pressure tank are sized to that use.
Bedrock comes up early in these logs. The 430 that record it put rock at a median 23 feet; a quarter hit it by 14 feet and three in four by 40. Casing usually runs from the surface down to rock, so on most lots it’s a short run. Berea Sandstone through Riceville Formation is the unit mapped at the town center.
Total depth lands near the middle of the county, 7th of 16 Crawford County towns by median. The hole keeps going in rock until it crosses enough water-bearing fractures, and where that happens differs from lot to lot. Residential well drilling walks through the job, and what a new well costs covers the factors behind the price, depth first among them.
WATER IN CRAWFORD COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Crawford County, taken 1928–2023, 77% of wells were hard or very hard, 35% carried iron above the staining line, 45% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Crawford County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY BLOOMING VALLEY CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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“I had the pleasure of having Sam and Hunter for the installation of my new water softener, and I couldn’t be more impressed. The system is working great, and I can already notice a difference in the water quality.”
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 55 minutes and 35 miles by road from Blooming Valley. Service calls for Blooming Valley are scheduled from there.
Blooming Valley and the municipalities around it: Woodcock Township, East Mead Township, Richmond Township, Woodcock, Saegertown, Randolph Township, Meadville, West Mead Township, Venango, Hayfield Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 16 Crawford County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 500 domestic wells within 5 miles of Blooming Valley: the median is 82 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 70 and 111 feet. The median well was logged at 20 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 23 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Under 70 feet is the less common result here: a quarter of the 500 depth logs stopped there or shallower, and the rest went deeper. A rock well is finished when the flow test shows enough water, not at a set depth, so yours could stop short of 70 if the rock gives water early.
Then it sits in the lowest quarter of the 496 yields logged around here, and the setup is sized with that in mind: a pump matched to what the well gives, and a larger pressure tank to carry the short peaks. A flow test during a well inspection gives the number to work from.
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