LAWRENCE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 29 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
New Wilmington’s borough water is bought in. EPA lists the borough as buying filtered surface water from Aqua PA’s Shenango Valley plant. For homes on wells, the logs are encouraging, with the shallowest median depth of nine Lawrence County towns and a median yield of 20 gallons a minute.
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WHAT WE DO IN NEW WILMINGTON
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.
The borough’s own EPA record lists no treatment steps, though the water it buys is listed as filtered. Homes on it get their water report from the borough. On a private well, testing the water comes first, on site or through a certified lab.
A quarter of the 579 depth logs finished by 83 feet and a quarter went past 161. Rock arrives at a median 24 feet, so casing is usually short and the air rotary or cable tool work below it makes up most of the job.
Half of the 543 yield logs show 20 gallons a minute or more, and a quarter 12 or less. For most homes that means a standard submersible pump and pressure tank, with the pump sized to the house rather than held back by the well.
WELLS AROUND NEW WILMINGTON
The 579 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of New Wilmington, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 83–161 ft
middle half 12–35 gpm
middle half 13–43 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
EPA lists New Wilmington Borough Water Department as buying its water rather than producing it. It is purchased surface water, filtered, from Aqua PA’s Shenango Valley plant. The borough has no wells or intakes of its own on the EPA record. Its own record lists no treatment steps, and the borough’s water report is the place to read about the water it delivers. The system serves about 4,500 people through 696 connections.
Wells outside the borough’s lines are a separate story. Their water comes from the rock untreated, and a water test is the only way to know what one holds. The Lawrence County treatment page sets out what the county’s USGS samples show and which treatment matches which result.
The Pottsville Formation, sandstone and conglomerate, is mapped at the town center. The 579 depth logs within 5 miles give the lowest median of nine Lawrence County towns, and rock is close too. Half of the 418 logs that note it reached bedrock within 24 feet, so casing, which usually runs down to rock, is often short.
With yields at a median 20 gallons a minute, the pump side is usually straightforward: a submersible pump sized for the house and a pressure tank matched to it. Depth still sets most of the price of a new well, and the drilling cost page explains how. The Greenville office provides PA DEP permit assistance.
WATER IN LAWRENCE COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Lawrence County, taken 1928–2023, 86% of wells were hard or very hard, 79% carried iron above the staining line, 58% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Lawrence County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY NEW WILMINGTON 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 29 minutes and 19 miles by road from New Wilmington. Service calls for New Wilmington are scheduled from there.
New Wilmington and the municipalities around it: Wilmington Township, Wilmington Township, Volant, Lackawannock Township, Neshannock Township, East Lackawannock Township, Hickory Township, Washington Township, Pulaski Township, Shenango Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 9 Lawrence County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 579 domestic wells within 5 miles of New Wilmington: the median is 115 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 83 and 161 feet. The median well was logged at 20 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 24 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
EPA records one lead number per sampling round, the 90th percentile, a reading near the top of the homes sampled. For the borough system it was 0.0022 mg/L for the round ending in 2016, recorded as zero in 2019, 0.0023 in 2022 and 0.00095 in 2025, all under the 0.015 mg/L action level. Your own faucet can differ. If a home test finds lead, an Atlas Filtri Oasis Sanic reverse osmosis unit at the sink is the common fix.
Some are. A quarter of the 543 yield logs show 35 gallons a minute or more, well beyond what a house alone uses. Farm and irrigation wells are part of Chatfield’s drilling work, and the pump system is designed for the flow the new well actually produces. Call (724) 588-2652 about a bigger supply.
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