MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO · 48 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Yield is the number to watch around New Middletown. The logs within 5 miles give a median of 13 gallons a minute, and one well in four gives 8 or less. That is still workable for a household when the pump, pressure tank and any treatment are sized to the well rather than to a stronger one.
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WHAT WE DO IN NEW MIDDLETOWN
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.
Filters that clean themselves by backwashing need a strong, steady flow, and a New Middletown well at the low end of the yield range may not supply it. Mention your well's flow when the water is tested, so any softener or iron filter is chosen to suit the water and the flow.
The town is joint 12th of 21 Mahoning County towns by median depth, and the middle half of logs finish between 85 and 165 feet, the same span as the county's domestic wells. Rock starts a median 30 feet down.
Water rests a median 30 feet down, between 17 and 50 in the middle half. A pump that delivers more than the well gives will draw the water down to its intake, so on a slower well the pump's flow is matched to the tested yield.
WELLS AROUND NEW MIDDLETOWN
The 1,898 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of New Middletown, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 85–165 ft
middle half 8–20 gpm
middle half 20–48 ft
1,778 wells; middle half 17–50 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
Of 1,706 logs near New Middletown that record a yield, the median is 13 gallons a minute and the middle half fall between 8 and 20. A household rarely needs a high flow for long, but the peaks, a shower and a washer together, have to be covered. On a slower well, a larger pressure tank holds more water between pump starts, and the submersible pump is chosen with a flow rating the well can sustain.
The resting level, between 17 and 50 feet down in the middle half of logs, is the starting point for how deep that pump hangs. On a slower well it goes low enough that a long run can't draw the water below it, and the rest is set from the yield measured at test-pumping.
Rock near New Middletown begins between 20 and 48 feet in the middle half of 1,760 logs, with a median of 30. Casing runs into the top of it and is sealed, and the rest of the hole is open rock. The rock mapped at the town center is the Allegheny and Pottsville Groups, Pennsylvanian shale, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.
On a well where yield is tight, the flow it gives is worth protecting. Mineral scale and sediment can build up in the open hole over the years and slow the water coming in, and well cleaning can win some of that flow back. For a new well, residential drilling covers the job, with the yield measured when the well is test-pumped.
WATER IN MAHONING COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Mahoning County, taken 1978–2001, 60% of wells were hard or very hard. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Mahoning County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY NEW MIDDLETOWN CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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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 48 minutes and 33 miles by road from New Middletown. Service calls for New Middletown are scheduled from there.
New Middletown and the municipalities around it: Springfield Township, S.N.P.J., Bessemer, Poland Township, Poland, Lowellville, Struthers, North Beaver Township, Beaver Township, Boardman Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Mahoning County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 1,898 domestic wells within 5 miles of New Middletown: the median is 116 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 85 and 165 feet. The median well was logged at 13 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 30 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Usually, if the system is built for it. One logged well in four nearby gives 8 gallons a minute or less. The pressure tank covers short peaks, and the pump is matched to what the well can sustain. Where a well gives much less, a storage tank with a booster pump can carry the house, sized after test-pumping.
How much water the well gives and how far its level drops while it does. The pump runs at a steady rate while the water level is watched, and the yield and pumping level that result set the pump's size and depth and the flow any treatment has to work with.
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