ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO · 58 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Geneva's city water arrives already filtered, bought from two suppliers: Aqua Ohio - Ashtabula and the Ashtabula County Water System. Homes on the city lines get their water report from the city. For homes on wells, range is the thing to plan for: the middle half of local logs runs from 47 to 112 feet deep.
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WHAT WE DO IN GENEVA
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.
EPA lists no treatment steps for the city system itself; the water it buys arrives filtered, and what the sellers add isn't on this record. The city's annual report covers it. For a home on a well, start with a water test.
Casing length can vary a lot here. Rock starts a median 43 feet down, but anywhere from 21 to 96 in the middle half of logs. The median well depth, 70 feet across 553 logs, ranks sixth of 19 county towns.
Yields run from 2 to 15 gallons a minute in the middle half of 509 logs, around a median of 6, and water rests a median 20 feet down. With a range that wide, the pump is picked after your own well's test.
WELLS AROUND GENEVA
The 553 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Geneva, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 47–112 ft
middle half 2–15 gpm
middle half 21–96 ft
518 wells; middle half 10–43 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
The city system is run by local government and serves 5,924 people through 2,510 connections. EPA records it buying filtered surface water from two systems, Aqua Ohio - Ashtabula and the Ashtabula County Water System, and lists no intakes, wells or treatment steps of its own.
The lead record covers seven rounds, from 2016 to 2025. Six are recorded as zero, and the round ending December 2019 was 0.0025 mg/L. All are under the 0.015 mg/L action level. They are 90th percentiles across homes sampled on the system, so a single tap can differ. A water test gives your own figure, and reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink is the usual answer if it finds lead.
The local numbers spread wide. The middle half of 553 logs runs from 47 to 112 feet deep. In the middle half of the 451 that record rock, it starts between 21 and 96 feet. Yields in the middle half run from 2 to 15 gallons a minute. The rock mapped at the town center is Ohio Shale.
So the logs nearest a site are worth reading before drilling, and the pump is chosen after the test. Casing usually runs down to rock, so a lot with deep rock takes more of it. A well in the slowest quarter, at 2 gallons a minute or less, is set up around a larger pressure tank; one in the fastest quarter, at 15 or more, has room for more demand. Residential well drilling covers the work.
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 GENEVA 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 58 minutes and 49 miles by road from Geneva. Service calls for Geneva are scheduled from there.
Geneva and the municipalities around it: Geneva Township, Geneva-on-the-Lake, Harpersfield Township, Saybrook Township, Madison Township, Madison, Austinburg Township, Trumbull Township, North Perry, Ashtabula. Beyond those, the rest of the 19 Ashtabula County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 553 domestic wells within 5 miles of Geneva: the median is 70 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 47 and 112 feet. The median well was logged at 6 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 43 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
EPA's record shows the city buying filtered water from Aqua Ohio - Ashtabula and the Ashtabula County Water System, with no intakes, wells or steps of its own. That doesn't mean the water is untreated: the sellers treat it, and their steps aren't on this record. The city's annual water quality report covers what reaches your tap.
It's settled at the rig. Local logs give the range, 47 to 112 feet for the middle half, but the driller keeps going until the hole gives the house enough water, then stops. Casing runs at least 25 feet under Ohio's private-well rules, and on down to rock where rock is deeper, which here it often is. The finished depth and the flow on test then set the pump and tank.
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