CRAWFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 61 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Springboro is a Conneaut Creek borough in western Crawford County, with Spring and Conneaut townships’ farm country around it. Most homes outside the borough are on wells, and their owners need a well company they can call for pump service. Chatfield comes from our Greenville office.
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WHAT WE DO IN SPRINGBORO
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.
Wells around Springboro carry the county’s iron and hardness, with sulfur smell in some. A water test tells us which and at what level. From there it is a FerronX, a carbon filter, or a softener, lined up so the iron is out before the water reaches the rest.
New wells for homes and farms in Spring, Conneaut, and Summerhill townships, drilled with air rotary or cable tool as the ground calls for. The PA DEP permit is ours to handle, and the casing, pump, and flow test are done before the rig leaves.
Pump service is the usual Springboro call: a pump that runs without filling the tank, pressure that surges, or no water. The crew diagnoses the pump, the switch, and the tank together and replaces what failed, with the common sizes on the truck.
WELLS AROUND SPRINGBORO
The 398 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Springboro, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 50–80 ft
middle half 3–12 gpm
middle half 14–40 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
Springboro’s wells are the shallowest in Crawford County, 16th of 16 towns by median depth. Rock arrives at a median 22 feet in the 159 logs that note it, though a quarter ran to 40 feet or more before reaching it. The rock beneath is siltstone, shale and sandstone of Late Devonian age, mapped under the town as the Chadakoin Formation.
A shallow well shortens the pump side of the job: less drop pipe, less wire, and a lighter pull when the pump needs service. Where the water stands high enough in the well, an above-ground jet pump can do the work; where it stands lower, a submersible hangs in the well below it. Measuring your own well decides which.
Yield is the number to watch. Of 372 logs that record one, the median is 6 gallons per minute, and a well giving 3 or less is common here. A thin yield doesn’t rule out a household well, because the water standing in the bore is stored water. Each foot of hole below the water level holds more, a reserve the pump draws down in a busy hour and the well refills afterward.
That is why depth can be a choice here rather than a result: drilling past the first water trades footage for storage, a call best made at the rig as the yield shows itself. Residential well drilling covers what happens when a well can’t meet demand. The Springboro Area Water Authority’s two wells supply 289 connections, and the Springboro treatment page covers its plant.
WATER IN CRAWFORD COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Crawford County, taken 1928–2023, 77% of wells were hard or very hard, 35% carried iron above the staining line, 45% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Crawford County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY SPRINGBORO 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
Yes. Submersible and jet pump repair and replacement, switches, pressure tanks, and constant-pressure upgrades for Springboro and the townships around it, from our Greenville office.
Yes. Residential and agricultural wells across western Crawford County, with the method matched to the ground, PA DEP permit assistance, and a flow test as part of the job.
Our Greenville office (854 Mercer Rd., Greenville, PA 16125) is about 61 minutes and 36 miles by road from Springboro. Service calls for Springboro are scheduled from there.
Springboro and the municipalities around it: Spring Township, Conneautville, Beaver Township, Summerhill Township, Albion, Cranesville, Conneaut Township, Conneaut Township, Elk Creek Township, Cussewago Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 16 Crawford County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 398 domestic wells within 5 miles of Springboro: the median is 60 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 50 and 80 feet. The median well was logged at 6 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 22 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Where yields run thin, it’s the safer order. Here, a quarter of the logs with a yield recorded 3 gallons per minute or less, and it’s better to know what your lot gives before a house is designed around it. A well drilled first is flow-tested, so the pump, the pressure tank and any storage can be planned from real numbers.
Only when the well is producing the water. A booster raises the pressure of what the system already delivers; it can’t add water a thin well isn’t giving. So the first checks are the well’s yield and the pressure tank. If the supply is there and the pressure isn’t, a booster is the right tool. If the well is the limit, the answer is storage and a pump sized to it.
Talk with the Chatfield team.
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YOUR NEXT STEP
Tell us what you’re noticing. We’ll come out from Greenville, test your water, and walk you through the next step.