BUTLER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 66 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Evans City Borough buys its water: EPA lists it on filtered surface water from Pennsylvania American Water’s Ellwood City system, and customers get their water report from the borough. For homes on wells, the number that matters is yield. Half the wells logged nearby gave 9 gallons per minute or less, and a quarter gave 4 or less.
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WHAT WE DO IN EVANS CITY
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.
On a private well, start with a water test that checks iron, manganese and hardness. On borough water, EPA’s entry for the borough lists chlorine gas before and after filtration; a CityLux system takes chlorine out for the whole house.
Depth drives the cost on an Evans City well, and nearly all the footage is in rock. Rock sat inside 25 feet in three of every four logs, a quarter of bores went past 250 feet, and the town ties for fourth of 21 Butler County towns by median depth.
On wells as slow as many here, the pump is sized to what the rock can refill, not to the number of fixtures. The water stored in a deep bore covers the busy hours, and a pressure tank sized to match keeps starts down.
WELLS AROUND EVANS CITY
The 889 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Evans City, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 120–250 ft
middle half 4–15 gpm
middle half 9–25 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
EPA’s record for Evans City Borough shows about 1,990 people served through 874 connections, on purchased surface water. The seller is Pennsylvania American Water’s Ellwood City system, which EPA marks as filtered. The borough’s own entry also lists treatment steps, among them permanganate for manganese, powdered carbon for taste and odor, rapid sand filtration, and chlorine gas before and after filtration.
What that means at the tap is water carrying chlorine. If its taste or smell bothers you, a CityLux system removes it for the whole house, and chlorine taste explains the signs. Lead is a question for your own plumbing, and only a water test at your tap measures it; if it turns up, a reverse osmosis unit at the kitchen sink is the usual fix.
For homes on their own wells, yield is the constraint. Across the 833 logs within 5 miles that record it, the median was 9 gallons per minute, with a quarter at 4 or less and only a quarter at 15 or more. Three in four bores went at least 120 feet deep.
Low yield doesn’t rule out a household supply. Water standing in a deep bore is drawn on when demand peaks, and a pump sized to the well’s recovery, rather than the fixtures, keeps the level from reaching the intake. Submersible pumps and pressure switches are set up with that in mind, and pump system design covers how the pieces fit a low-yield well.
WATER IN BUTLER COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Butler County, taken 1926–1997, 68% of wells were hard or very hard, 56% carried iron above the staining line, 86% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Butler County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY EVANS CITY CHOOSES CHATFIELD
Rated 4.7 on Google across 104 reviews. Here is what working with us looks like, in a customer’s words.
“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 66 minutes and 48 miles by road from Evans City. Service calls for Evans City are scheduled from there.
Evans City and the municipalities around it: Callery, Forward Township, Jackson Township, Harmony, Connoquenessing, Zelienople, Cranberry Township, Adams Township, Mars, Seven Fields. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Butler County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 889 domestic wells within 5 miles of Evans City: the median is 170 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 120 and 250 feet. The median well was logged at 9 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 16 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Start by measuring it. A well inspection checks what the well delivers and whether the pump and tank suit it. A quarter of local logs gave 4 gallons per minute or less, and wells like that often do fine with a pump matched to their recovery, a larger pressure tank, or both. If flow has dropped over time, well cleaning can restore some of it.
Geologic maps place the Glenshaw Formation at the town center, a Pennsylvanian unit of shale, coal, sandstone and limestone. Drillers in the area reached rock at a median 16 feet, so almost all of a bore is drilled in rock. The map describes one point; your own well’s log records the layers it crossed and where water came in.
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 PROBLEMSChlorine or chloramine, how to tell which, and the whole-home fix.
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.