VENANGO COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 90 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Yield is the number that shapes a well near Pleasantville. Half of the 208 logs that record one show 10 gallons a minute or less, and three quarters show 15 or less, a tight, modest band. A household can run on that, but the pump, the tank and sometimes storage have to be planned around the well.
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WHAT WE DO IN PLEASANTVILLE
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.
On the borough system, a CityLux whole-home filter removes the added chlorine. On a private well, a water test, on site or through a certified lab, shows whether any treatment is needed at all, from sediment filtration to a softener.
Rock sits at a median 26 feet in the 105 logs that note it, and past 43 on a quarter of them. Casing usually runs down to rock, so its length follows the soil cover from lot to lot.
Pump sizing starts from the yield. With half the logs at 10 gallons a minute or less, the Greenville office designs the pump, pressure tank and, where needed, storage around what the well gives rather than what the house would like.
WELLS AROUND PLEASANTVILLE
The 219 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Pleasantville, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 62–147 ft
middle half 10–15 gpm
middle half 17–43 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
The yield logs cluster tightly: the lower quarter and the median are both 10 gallons a minute, and the upper quarter is 15. Generous wells are the exception, so the pump system matters more than usual. A submersible pump sized a little under the well’s flow avoids drawing it down too far, and a larger pressure tank cuts the number of pump starts.
When a well can’t keep up with peak use, storage bridges the gap. The well fills a tank at its own pace through the day, and a booster pump delivers pressure from that tank to the house. A constant-pressure upgrade smooths out showers and laundry running together, but no controller can make a well give more water than it has.
The Pottsville Formation, Pennsylvanian sandstone and conglomerate, is mapped at the town center. In rock like this, water sits in fractures and in the spaces between grains, and how many of those a bore crosses decides both its yield and how deep the driller has to go.
Around Pleasantville the depth logs spread widely. A quarter of the 219 records finished by 62 feet and a quarter went past 147, with the town fifth of ten Venango County towns by median depth. For budgeting, that range is more useful than any single figure, since footage is the main driver of what a new well costs. Well drilling covers the air rotary and cable tool rigs the Greenville office uses.
WATER IN VENANGO COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Venango County, taken 1928–2023, 43% of wells were hard or very hard, 43% carried iron above the staining line, 40% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Venango County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY PLEASANTVILLE 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 Greenville office (854 Mercer Rd., Greenville, PA 16125) is about 90 minutes and 56 miles by road from Pleasantville. Service calls for Pleasantville are scheduled from there.
Pleasantville and the municipalities around it: Oil Creek Township, Allegheny Township, Southwest Township, Titusville, Cherrytree Township, Harmony Township, Oil Creek Township, Hydetown, Cornplanter Township, Triumph Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 10 Venango County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 219 domestic wells within 5 miles of Pleasantville: the median is 98 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 62 and 147 feet. The median well was logged at 10 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 26 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
EPA lists Pleasantville Borough Water as buying groundwater from Titusville Municipal Water, which treats it, including 4-log treatment of viruses, a strict disinfection standard. The borough has no active wells of its own and adds gaseous chlorine before the water goes out to about 846 people on 580 connections. Customers get their water report from the borough, and homes on wells test their own.
Yes. PA DEP permit assistance is part of a new well from the Greenville office, along with the drilling itself, by air rotary or cable tool, and the design of the pump system. Given how widely the local logs spread, from a quarter at 62 feet or less to a quarter past 147, the plan is set around your lot. Call (724) 588-2652 to get started.
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