ERIE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 86 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Girard is a borough on the old Ridge Road west of Erie, with Girard and Fairview townships’ farms and orchards around it and Lake Erie a few miles north. The borough is on public water; the townships are on wells, and Girard homeowners often need a drilling contractor. Chatfield drills from our Greenville office.
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WHAT WE DO IN GIRARD
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.
Township wells around Girard carry iron and hardness, with sulfur smell in some. A water test tells us what to put in and where each piece sits in line. Iron needs a FerronX at the front, smell a carbon filter, and hardness a softener behind both. On borough water, a CityLux takes out the chlorine.
A well drilling contractor is what we are first. We drill new wells for homes and farms in Girard, Fairview, Springfield, and Elk Creek townships, through the lake-plain clay into the rock beneath it, with air rotary or cable tool as the ground calls for. PA DEP permitting is handled, and water flow is tested before the rig leaves.
We service the pump, switch, and tank on Girard-area wells, whether the trouble is low pressure, cycling, or no water. The crew diagnoses the system as a whole, replaces the part that failed, and carries the common sizes so most repairs finish in one visit.
WELLS AROUND GIRARD
The 765 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Girard, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 43–86 ft
middle half 5–20 gpm
middle half 25–85 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
Around Girard, much of a well’s depth is ground above the rock. In the 325 logs that note bedrock, the median depth to it is 53 feet, not far short of the median well depth of 60, and a quarter of them went 85 feet or more before reaching rock. On a typical well here, much of the drilling happens before the bit touches rock. The rock mapped under the town is the Girard Shale, siltstone and shale.
That cover is where the drilling method earns its place. Cable tool drilling pounds through loose ground while the casing follows the bit down; air rotary cuts rock and lifts the cuttings out with compressed air. Chatfield runs both, and well drilling explains when each fits. Deep cover also means a long string of casing, and the cost of a new well page explains how casing figures in.
Depth varies widely too. A quarter of the 765 logs stop at 43 feet or less and a quarter reach 86 or more, so a pump for a Girard well is matched to that well: its depth, where the water stands in it, and what it gave on the flow test. Yields sit in a middle band, a median of 10 gallons per minute across 685 logs, with a quarter at 5 or less and a quarter at 20 or more. Submersible and jet pumps are chosen from those measurements.
Borough homes are on a different supply: three borough wells, Mission, Mohring and Butternut, serving 1,277 connections. The Girard treatment page covers what the borough does to that water. Outside the borough’s lines, the pump, switch and tank belong to the homeowner.
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 GIRARD 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. Residential and agricultural wells in Girard Township and the townships around it, with the drilling method matched to the ground, PA DEP permit assistance, casing and pump installation, and a flow test as part of the job.
It depends on where the water-bearing rock sits under your property, and along the lake plain that varies from one road to the next. We check the records for nearby wells before quoting and tell you what the ground is likely to give.
Yes. Pump, switch, and tank repair and replacement from our Greenville office, with the common sizes on the truck.
Our Greenville office (854 Mercer Rd., Greenville, PA 16125) is about 86 minutes and 63 miles by road from Girard. Service calls for Girard are scheduled from there.
Girard and the municipalities around it: Girard Township, Lake City, Platea, Fairview Township, Cranesville, Franklin Township, Springfield Township, Elk Creek Township, Albion, McKean. Beyond those, the rest of the 16 Erie County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 765 domestic wells within 5 miles of Girard: the median is 60 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 43 and 86 feet. The median well was logged at 10 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 53 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
It takes more footage, and more casing if rock comes in late, which here it can: a quarter of the logs that record bedrock found it at 85 feet or more. Before drilling, ask whether the quote is per foot or a firm figure, what casing is used and how deep it’s expected to go, and how extra depth is billed.
Yes. A well inspection looks at the wellhead, the pump and the pressure tank, and runs a flow test and a water test, with anything health-related sent to a certified lab. Compare the flow with the local logs: a median of 10 gallons per minute, with a quarter at 5 or less.
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.