ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO · 36 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
In Dorset-area wells, water stands close to the top but comes in slowly. Across the logs within five miles, the static level has a median of 7 feet below ground, while the median yield is 3 gallons a minute and a quarter give 2 or less. A well here can be nearly full and still slow to refill.
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WHAT WE DO IN DORSET
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.
Iron is a common find. In USGS samples of 9 Ashtabula County wells, 56% were over the 0.3 mg/L staining line, with a median of 0.5 mg/L. If a test of your well agrees, the FerronX Iron System takes it out before it stains fixtures and laundry.
Wells here are among the shallowest in the county: 51 feet at the median across 577 logs, 18th of 19 towns. Rock starts a median 22 feet down, but casing still runs at least 25 feet under Ohio's private-well rules.
Water rests between 4 and 11 feet down in the middle half of 553 logs, so the lift is short. The limit is refill: the pump is matched to what the well gives, and storage covers the rest.
WELLS AROUND DORSET
The 577 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Dorset, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 45–60 ft
middle half 2–8 gpm
middle half 15–28 ft
553 wells; middle half 4–11 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
The static level is where water settles in a finished well with the pump off, and here it is high: a median of 7 feet below ground, and 11 feet or less in three of four logs. In a well of 51 feet, the local median depth, that leaves most of the bore holding water.
Standing water is not the same as flow, though. Yield measures how fast the well refills once the pump draws it down, and the median here is 3 gallons a minute across 524 logs. The rock mapped at the town center is Ohio Shale, and shale generally gives up water slowly. Residential well drilling and a well inspection both start from that distinction.
With a median yield of 3 gallons a minute, and 8 or more in only a quarter of logs, a well here is set up to store water rather than race it. The pump is sized to the refill rate measured on test, since a pump that outpaces the well pulls the level down to its intake and runs short.
A larger pressure tank delivers more water between starts, and the water in the bore covers the rest of a busy stretch. Habits count too: spreading laundry, showers and garden watering across the day keeps demand within what the well replaces. If a well that once kept up no longer does, pump repair and diagnostics find out whether the pump or the well has changed.
WATER IN ASHTABULA COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Ashtabula County, taken 1982–2016, 89% of wells were hard or very hard, 56% carried iron above the staining line, 78% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Ashtabula County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY DORSET CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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“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
Our Cortland office (7115 Hoagland Blackstub Rd. Unit C, Cortland, OH 44410) is about 36 minutes and 27 miles by road from Dorset. Service calls for Dorset are scheduled from there.
Dorset and the municipalities around it: Dorset Township, Lenox Township, Denmark Township, Richmond Township, Cherry Valley Township, Jefferson, Jefferson Township, New Lyme Township, Pierpont Township, Andover Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 19 Ashtabula County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 577 domestic wells within 5 miles of Dorset: the median is 51 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 45 and 60 feet. The median well was logged at 3 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 22 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Sometimes. A shallow-well jet pump sits above the well and lifts by suction, which works only while the water stays near the surface, and here it rests a median 7 feet down. On a slow well, though, pumping pulls the level down, and a submersible hung low in the bore keeps working when it does. The choice comes down to how far your well draws down on test.
Usually, if the equipment is sized to it. Filters that backwash and softeners that regenerate need a steady flow while they do it, and a quarter of local logs show 2 gallons a minute or less. The well's tested yield is checked alongside the water test, so the equipment chosen can run on the flow you have.
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