VENANGO COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 42 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Clintonville has the deepest median well of ten Venango County towns, yet rock sits close to the surface: the logs that record it put bedrock at a median 18 feet. So a typical well here is mostly a long bore in rock, and the footage in rock is what to plan around.
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WHAT WE DO IN CLINTONVILLE
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.
The borough plant takes iron and manganese out before its water reaches customers. Wells outside the system get no such step, so a water test, on site or through a certified lab, shows whether a FerronX Iron System belongs in the basement.
A quarter of the 214 depth logs went past 169 feet, and a quarter of the 139 bedrock logs hit rock within 10. Casing usually runs to rock, so it stays short; the length of open bore below it varies far more from lot to lot.
Half of the 205 yield logs show 15 gallons a minute or less, and a quarter show 8 or less. At the low end, a pump sized to the well and a larger pressure tank, or a storage tank with a booster pump, keeps the house supplied.
WELLS AROUND CLINTONVILLE
The 214 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Clintonville, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 79–169 ft
middle half 8–30 gpm
middle half 10–30 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
Three quarters of the logs that note bedrock found it within 30 feet. The Allegheny Formation is mapped under the town, a Pennsylvanian stack of sandstone, shale, limestone, clay and coal. In layered rock like that, water moves along fractures and through the more open beds, and a bore is drilled on until it crosses enough of them to supply the house.
All the same, the finished wells have the deepest median of ten Venango County towns. For a new well, footage in rock is the main unknown, and the drilling cost page explains how it is priced. Our well drilling page covers the air rotary and cable tool rigs, and PA DEP permit assistance comes with the job.
The Clintonville Borough water system pumps from two active wells, Well #1 and Well #2, for about 557 people on 189 connections. Much of what EPA lists for it targets iron and manganese: permanganate, diffused aeration and greensand filtration. Chlorine and a pH adjustment for corrosion control round it out, along with 4-log treatment of viruses, a disinfection standard that kills nearly all of them. Homes on the borough’s lines get their water report from the utility.
A well outside the system sends its water to the tap as it comes out of the ground. If that water leaves orange stains or dark specks, the household answer is iron removal with a FerronX Iron System, chosen after a water test on site or through a certified lab.
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.
WHY CLINTONVILLE CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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“Chatfield Drilling replaced a submersible pump, extended our well casing above ground, and installed a sanitary cap at our farm house. This is our first experience with a well. Both Matt and Sam were happy to answer all of our questions, no matter how small, in a way that we could understand and enabled us to make informed decisions.”
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 42 minutes and 33 miles by road from Clintonville. Service calls for Clintonville are scheduled from there.
Clintonville and the municipalities around it: Clinton Township, Irwin Township, Cherry Valley, Venango Township, Marion Township, Barkeyville, Eau Claire, Scrubgrass Township, Allegheny Township, Victory 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 214 domestic wells within 5 miles of Clintonville: the median is 112 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 79 and 169 feet. The median well was logged at 15 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 18 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
EPA files the plant’s diffused aeration under iron removal. Bubbling air through water is a standard way to turn dissolved iron into particles a filter can catch, and the plant also lists permanganate and greensand filtration for iron and manganese. The borough’s water report covers the details for its customers; a private well gets none of this unless the owner adds treatment.
Enough to show a pattern, not to predict one well. The 214 depth logs, 205 yield logs and 139 bedrock logs within 5 miles agree that rock is shallow and finished wells run deep, but any single lot can differ. A neighboring well’s record, if its owner has one, and the driller’s log for your own well are the best guides after that.
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