LAWRENCE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 63 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Ellport tops nine Lawrence County towns for median well depth, 165 feet, and the wells work hard for their water: half of the 791 yield logs show 10 gallons a minute or less, and a quarter 5 or less. A new well here often means a deep bore and a pump system built around a slow refill.
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WHAT WE DO IN ELLPORT
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.
For a private well around Ellport, a water test sorts out what the water needs, whether a FerronX Iron System, a LuxSoft softener or both. Homes on the public supply get surface water disinfected with chloramine, and a CityLux removes the chloramine.
Rock is close: the 669 logs that record it put bedrock at a median 16 feet, and three quarters within 29. With casing usually ending at rock, nearly all of a typical Ellport well is drilled through rock.
Pump choice here has to answer to the yield as well as the depth. The Greenville office sizes the submersible, the pressure tank and, where the well is slow, storage and a booster pump, and handles emergency repair when a pump quits.
WELLS AROUND ELLPORT
The 813 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Ellport, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 120–251 ft
middle half 5–20 gpm
middle half 10–29 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
The 813 depth logs within 5 miles give the town the deepest median of nine Lawrence County towns, and a quarter of them went past 251 feet. Soil depth isn’t the reason: a quarter of the logs that note bedrock found it within 10 feet. The Pottsville Formation, Pennsylvanian sandstone and conglomerate, is mapped at the town center.
In fractured sandstone, a well draws from the openings its bore crosses, and drilling continues until the flow is enough for the house. Footage drives the cost of a new well, so plan around the deeper end of the local range, not the median. Our well drilling page covers the air rotary and cable tool rigs, and the Greenville office handles PA DEP permit assistance.
A quarter of the 791 yield logs around Ellport show 5 gallons a minute or less, and only a quarter show 20 or more. A well at the low end can still supply a house, as long as the system never asks it for more than it gives at any moment.
The common setup is storage. The well fills a tank slowly through the day, and a booster pump pressurizes the house from that tank. On a well with a little more flow, a correctly sized submersible pump and a larger pressure tank may be enough. A variable-speed upgrade for constant pressure steadies the shower, but it doesn’t add a gallon to what the well gives.
WATER IN LAWRENCE COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Lawrence County, taken 1928–2023, 86% of wells were hard or very hard, 79% carried iron above the staining line, 58% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Lawrence County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY ELLPORT CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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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 63 minutes and 44 miles by road from Ellport. Service calls for Ellport are scheduled from there.
Ellport and the municipalities around it: Ellwood City, Wayne Township, Perry Township, Franklin Township, Koppel, North Sewickley Township, Wampum, Homewood, New Beaver, Marion Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 9 Lawrence County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 813 domestic wells within 5 miles of Ellport: the median is 165 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 120 and 251 feet. The median well was logged at 10 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 16 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
EPA lists chloramines among the disinfection steps for Pennsylvania American Water’s Ellwood City system, which takes in water from the Connoquenessing and the Beaver River and covers the town center. Chloramine holds up in the pipes longer than plain chlorine does, and a whole-home CityLux removes it along with any chlorine. Customers get their water report from the utility.
Sometimes. Flow can drop as a pump wears or as buildup collects in the well, and a well inspection shows which is happening. Well cleaning deals with buildup in the well itself. If the well never gave much to begin with, storage with a booster pump is usually the practical answer, given how deep the bores around Ellport run.
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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 PROBLEMSChlorine or chloramine, how to tell which, and the whole-home fix.
YOUR NEXT STEP
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