ERIE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 73 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Cranesville is a small borough in southwestern Erie County, on the Conneaut Creek flats between Albion and Girard. Homes here and in Elk Creek and Conneaut townships are mostly on private wells, and pump repair and installation are what those homes often need from us. Chatfield comes from our Greenville office.
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WHAT WE DO IN CRANESVILLE
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.
Wells on the flats around Cranesville run to iron and hardness, with sulfur smell in some. A water test shows what a home needs and what goes in first. The FerronX comes first for iron, then a carbon filter for the smell, then a softener for the hardness.
New wells for homes and farms in Elk Creek, Conneaut, and Springfield townships, drilled with air rotary or cable tool as the ground calls for. We handle PA DEP permitting, set the casing and pump, and test water flow before the rig leaves.
Pump work is most of what we do around Cranesville, from repairs to new installations. The crew diagnoses the pump, the switch, and the tank together, replaces the part that failed, and carries the common sizes so most repairs finish in one visit.
WELLS AROUND CRANESVILLE
The 628 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Cranesville, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 47–75 ft
middle half 3–12 gpm
middle half 14–46 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
Around Cranesville, the logs have the most to say about the pump. Of 565 logs that record a yield, the median is 6 gallons per minute, the bottom quarter 3 or under and the top quarter 12 and up. On wells like these, a pump can easily out-draw the ground. One rated for more than the well gives back pulls the water down toward its intake, and a submersible that runs short of water runs hot and wears out early.
So the pump is sized to the well rather than the catalog: its output held at or under the tested yield, set with water above it, and paired with a pressure tank that spaces out the starts. A constant-pressure upgrade smooths delivery, but it can’t add water, so yield comes first. Well pump repair covers a pump that has already worn.
Homes on the Cranesville Water Department’s 250 connections get water the department buys from Albion Borough, treated by the seller before it arrives. Their water quality report comes from the department, and the Cranesville treatment page has more. Homes off those lines draw from private wells.
Drilling a private well here is on the shallow side, with Cranesville 13th of 16 Erie County towns by median depth. Rock sits at a median 23 feet in the 313 logs that note it, with a quarter reaching it by 14 and a quarter not until 46 or deeper, so casing length varies from lot to lot. The rock mapped under the town is shale, siltstone and sandstone of the Chadakoin Formation.
WATER IN ERIE COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Erie County, taken 1927–2023, 68% of wells were hard or very hard, 33% carried iron above the staining line, 83% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Erie County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY CRANESVILLE CHOOSES CHATFIELD
Rated 4.7 on Google across 104 reviews. Here is what working with us looks like, in a customer’s words.
“We bought a new home November 1st, 2024 and low and behold it had a collapsed well. After several quotes, we chose Chatfield drilling, and we’re glad we did! Matt & his team arrived quickly to assess the situation, and formulate a plan to get the H2O flowing again. Even through the holidays, they did not waiver. Eric their driller worked hard in the brutal NE Ohio cold to pound a well for us. We are beyond pleased, and have fantastic water!”
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
Yes. Submersible and jet pump repair and replacement, switches, pressure tanks, and constant-pressure upgrades for Cranesville and the townships around it, from our Greenville office. No-water calls go to the front of the line.
Most residential replacements finish in one visit once the pump is diagnosed, because the common sizes are on the truck. Deep wells and pumps with wiring problems, or a bad pitless adapter on the casing, take longer, and we will say so before starting.
Yes. Residential and agricultural wells across southwestern Erie County, with the method matched to the ground, PA DEP permit assistance, and a flow test as part of the job.
Our Greenville office (854 Mercer Rd., Greenville, PA 16125) is about 73 minutes and 55 miles by road from Cranesville. Service calls for Cranesville are scheduled from there.
Cranesville and the municipalities around it: Albion, Platea, Elk Creek Township, Conneaut Township, Girard Township, Franklin Township, Springfield Township, Girard, Spring Township, Springboro. Beyond those, the rest of the 16 Erie County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 628 domestic wells within 5 miles of Cranesville: the median is 57 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 47 and 75 feet. The median well was logged at 6 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 23 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
The signs show up during heavy use: pressure that fades through a long shower or back-to-back laundry, air or sputtering at the taps, or a pump that runs without building pressure. With a quarter of the local logs at 3 gallons per minute or less, it’s a pattern worth knowing here. A flow test shows what your well delivers, and the pump and tank are set to that.
That depends on where the water stands in your well, not on how deep the hole goes. A submersible hangs below the level the water drops to while pumping, with some room left beneath it. The level is measured on site before the pump is set.
Talk with the Chatfield team.
(724) 588-2652A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE GOES A LONG WAY
WATER TESTINGWhat a test measures, what the results mean, and what happens next.
WELL DRILLINGWhat drives the price of drilling a well in our region, and what to ask before you sign.
WATER PROBLEMSThe signs, what causes hardness in our region, and how to confirm it.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Tell us what you’re noticing. We’ll come out from Greenville, test your water, and walk you through the next step.