COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO · 54 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
New Waterford draws its village water from its own ground. Six wells, two of them listed as the Boardman wells, supply it, and EPA lists iron and manganese removal before the water goes out. Around the village, private wells run a median 120 feet, on the shallower side for the county.
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WHAT WE DO IN NEW WATERFORD
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.
Village water is chlorinated, and EPA lists no softening step there. A CityLux at your main line takes the chlorine back out and softens the water in the same unit, and a test at your tap shows how hard it is.
Across 2,035 local logs, the median well is 120 feet and three in four stopped by 180. Bedrock is a median 31 feet down, between 16 and 48 in the middle half, and the Allegheny and Pottsville Groups are mapped under the village.
Half the wells yield 15 gallons per minute or more, though a quarter give 8 or less. Water rests a median 45 feet down, so a submersible set below it with a pressure tank sized to the house suits most wells.
WELLS AROUND NEW WATERFORD
The 2,035 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of New Waterford, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 85–180 ft
middle half 8–25 gpm
middle half 16–48 ft
1,865 wells; middle half 25–72 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
New Waterford's village system draws groundwater for about 1,238 people and 446 connections, by EPA’s record. Six active wells supply it: Wells 1 through 4, of which Wells 3 and 4 were formerly the Lindsay wells, plus Boardman Wells 5 and 6. EPA lists one treatment plant and three storage tanks. The treatment steps are chlorine before and after filtration, plus permanganate and greensand filtration to take out iron and manganese. Homes on the system get the village’s water report.
On lead, each sampling round from 2016 through 2025 was below the 0.015 mg/L action level, with 2022 and 2024 recorded as zero. Those are village-wide figures. Your own tap can differ, and a sink-mounted reverse osmosis system is the usual fix when a home test turns up lead.
The local logs describe wells a little shallower than the county’s: a 120-foot median against 135, tied for 16th of 21 Columbiana County towns. Rock is reached at a median 31 feet, so casing runs through that much soil before it seats.
Yield is where the local wells vary. Half give 15 gallons per minute or more, but a quarter give 8 or less, so a new well’s yield test matters before the pump is chosen. A pump picked for the fast end would pull a slow well down to its intake. Pump system design sizes it to the measured result, and what a new well costs explains how the depth figures in.
WATER IN COLUMBIANA COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Columbiana County, taken 1986–2016, 86% of wells were hard or very hard, 79% 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 Columbiana County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY NEW WATERFORD 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 54 minutes and 42 miles by road from New Waterford. Service calls for New Waterford are scheduled from there.
New Waterford and the municipalities around it: Unity Township, East Palestine, Rogers, Fairfield Township, Columbiana, Springfield Township, Beaver Township, Leetonia, Darlington Township, Little Beaver Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Columbiana County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 2,035 domestic wells within 5 miles of New Waterford: the median is 120 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 85 and 180 feet. The median well was logged at 15 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 31 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
EPA’s record lists no softening step for the village system, which chlorinates and removes iron and manganese. Whether the water is hard enough to bother you is a question for the village’s water report or a test at your tap. If it is, a whole-house softener works on village water as well as on a private well.
Often. The USGS samples of Columbiana County wells found iron above 0.3 mg/L in 79% and manganese above 0.05 mg/L in 86%. On a private well, nothing is removed before the water reaches the house, so a water test shows whether a FerronX Iron System belongs at yours, and how it should be sized to your water.
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