BUTLER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 80 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
On EPA’s map, Valencia’s center falls within Richland Township Water Authority, which buys all its water: filtered surface water from West View Water Authority, Hampton Shaler Water Authority and the Municipal Water Authority of Adams Township. Every lead round on record was under the 0.015 mg/L action level, the latest at 0.00139 mg/L. Homes on private wells draw on the ground the logs describe.
Serving our communities since 1967
Mars · Adams Township · Richland Township · Pine Township · Seven Fields · Middlesex Township · Callery · Bradford Woods · Cranberry Township · Hampton Township
WHAT WE DO IN VALENCIA
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.
EPA lists no treatment steps for the authority itself. Its suppliers filter the water before it arrives, and customers get their report from the authority. A private well gets a water test first, checking iron, manganese, hardness and pH.
Wells here run to middling depths for Butler County, 12th of 21 towns by median, and three in four logged wells stopped by 205 feet. Rock comes at a median 20 feet, so the top of each bore is cased and the rest is drilled in rock.
The median yield is 10 gallons per minute, and three in four logs gave at least 7. That’s enough for a household when the submersible pump is matched to the well and the pressure tank is big enough to space out its starts.
WELLS AROUND VALENCIA
The 816 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Valencia, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 115–205 ft
middle half 7–20 gpm
middle half 12–28 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
Richland Township Water Authority serves 10,190 people through 4,106 connections, EPA’s record shows, all on purchased surface water. It buys from three sellers, West View Water Authority, Hampton Shaler Water Authority and the Municipal Water Authority of Adams Township, each listed as filtered, and EPA lists no treatment steps of the authority’s own.
Its four lead rounds on EPA’s record, 2016 to 2025, had 90th-percentile results of 0.0029, 0.00204, 0.00262 and, most recently, 0.00139 mg/L, each under the 0.015 mg/L action level. Your own tap can differ with its plumbing; a water test settles that, and reverse osmosis under the kitchen sink handles lead if any is found.
The 771 logs around Valencia that record yield put the median at 10 gallons per minute; a quarter gave 7 or less and a quarter 20 or more. Under the town center, geologic maps show the Glenshaw Formation’s Pennsylvanian shale, coal, sandstone and limestone.
A well in that middle range serves a house comfortably with the right equipment. A submersible pump sized to the measured recovery won’t outrun the well, and the pressure switch settings, matched to the tank, control how often the pump cycles. What a new well costs explains how depth and casing add up.
WATER IN BUTLER COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Butler County, taken 1926–1997, 68% of wells were hard or very hard, 56% 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 Butler County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY VALENCIA 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 80 minutes and 59 miles by road from Valencia. Service calls for Valencia are scheduled from there.
Valencia and the municipalities around it: Mars, Adams Township, Richland Township, Pine Township, Seven Fields, Middlesex Township, Callery, Bradford Woods, Cranberry Township, Hampton Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Butler County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 816 domestic wells within 5 miles of Valencia: the median is 150 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 115 and 205 feet. The median well was logged at 10 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 20 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Get it inspected. A well inspection checks the pump, pressure tank and wellhead, measures the flow the well delivers, and tests the water. Half the logged wells in the area gave 10 gallons per minute or less, so the measured flow tells you whether the well suits your household. If the home is on authority water instead, its water report comes from the authority.
Most of it is rock. Drillers in the area hit bedrock at a median 20 feet, with half the logs between 12 and 28, while the median well went to 150 feet. The top section, through soil, is usually cased and sealed into the rock; below that, the bore is open hole, and that’s where the water comes in.
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.