ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO · 31 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Orwell Village pumps groundwater from six wells of its own and treats it for iron and manganese before it reaches the mains. A private well nearby draws groundwater too but gets none of that treatment. For those wells, rock starts a median 20 feet down and water rests a median 10 feet below ground.
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WHAT WE DO IN ORWELL
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.
If a test of a private well here finds iron or manganese over their lines, 0.3 and 0.05 mg/L, the FerronX Iron System removes both at the house. The same test shows whether hardness or anything else needs attention too.
The 914 local logs put the median depth at 62 feet, ninth of 19 county towns, just above the county median of 60. With rock a median 20 feet down, most of the drilling is in rock.
Flow varies widely: a median of 7 gallons a minute, but 3 or less in a quarter of logs and 20 or more in another quarter. Water stands high, 18 feet or less in three of four logs, so the lift is short.
WELLS AROUND ORWELL
The 914 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Orwell, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 50–86 ft
middle half 3–20 gpm
middle half 13–34 ft
841 wells; middle half 6–18 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
The village system is run by local government and serves 1,660 people through 529 connections. EPA lists six active wells, one treatment plant and one storage tank. Its treatment steps are permanganate for iron removal, chlorine added before filtration for disinfection, and greensand filtration for iron and manganese.
That work is done before the water reaches homes on the lines, which get their water report from the village. All four lead rounds on the system's record, from 2018 to 2025, are under the 0.015 mg/L action level. What a private well needs depends on its own water test. Where iron or manganese turn up, iron removal at the house does the job the greensand does for the village.
Rock is close here: half of the 712 logs that record it reach bedrock within 20 feet, and three in four within 34. Casing is still set to at least 25 feet, Ohio's private-well minimum. The rock mapped at the town center is Ohio Shale. Water stands close to the top too, a median 10 feet below ground in 841 logs.
The spread is in the flow. The middle half of 866 logs runs from 3 to 20 gallons a minute, so two wells not far apart can differ a lot. A strong well has room for a larger household or a farm; a slow one leans on a pump matched to its refill rate and a pressure tank. Residential well drilling covers the hole itself.
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 ORWELL 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 Cortland office (7115 Hoagland Blackstub Rd. Unit C, Cortland, OH 44410) is about 31 minutes and 23 miles by road from Orwell. Service calls for Orwell are scheduled from there.
Orwell and the municipalities around it: Orwell Village, Orwell Township, Windsor Township, Bloomfield Township, Rome Township, Colebrook Township, Mesopotamia Township, Hartsgrove Township, Roaming Shores, Greene Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 19 Ashtabula County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 914 domestic wells within 5 miles of Orwell: the median is 62 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 50 and 86 feet. The median well was logged at 7 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 20 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
EPA lists chlorine among the village system's steps, added before filtration for disinfection. Chlorine can show up as a taste or smell at the tap, and a CityLux system removes it for the whole house. A home on a private well gets no chlorine unless the owner adds it.
A lot. Of the 866 local logs that record a yield, a quarter show 3 gallons a minute or less and a quarter show 20 or more, around a median of 7. No map shows which end a new hole will land on, so the pump, tank and any treatment wait for the flow measured when your well is test-pumped.
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WATER PROBLEMSIron and manganese in well water: what causes it and how a test confirms it.
YOUR NEXT STEP
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