PENNSYLVANIA · 53 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Venango County is oil country and well country. Franklin, Oil City, and the townships along the Allegheny and French Creek are about an hour from our Greenville office, and the rig, the treatment crew, and the pump truck all make the trip.
Serving our communities since 1967
WHERE WE WORK IN VENANGO COUNTY
From Franklin and Oil City to the townships around them, Chatfield brings local water system expertise to homes, farms, and businesses across Venango County.
Between towns, or not on the list? We cover the whole county, so call and we’ll schedule from Greenville.
WHAT WE DO IN VENANGO COUNTY
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.
Planning new construction? Replacing an old well? Our team provides professional residential and commercial well drilling throughout Venango County. We use cable tool and air rotary methods depending on site conditions, ensuring safe and long-lasting water access.
Venango County properties may face water issues like iron staining, sulfur odors, hard water, or bacteria contamination. Our custom water treatment systems eliminate these issues, so you get crystal-clear, great-tasting water whether you’re on a private well or municipal supply.
From pump installation and troubleshooting to pressure tank replacement and constant pressure system upgrades, we make sure your water system runs efficiently and reliably all year long. No flow? No pressure? We’ve got you covered.
WATER IN VENANGO COUNTY
Venango County's USGS depth record holds only 13 wells, so the town logs tell more: hundreds of logs around each of the 10 towns on our map, with median depths in a tight band from 88 to 112 feet.
The 13 USGS groundwater site records for Venango County have a median depth of 130 feet, but their middle half runs from 63 to 200, a wide spread from a small set. The logs within 5 miles of each town center give a steadier picture: 666 around Sugarcreek, 584 around Polk, 552 around Barkeyville, and 214 around Clintonville, the fewest.
Those logs put Clintonville deepest at 112 feet, then Cooperstown (103) and Franklin (102). Utica is shallowest at 88, with Polk (90) and Rouseville (93) just above. No median sets the depth of one hole, so a new well is still judged on its own ground, and our drilling cost page explains what moves the price.
The Cuyahoga Group is mapped at five town centers: Cooperstown, Franklin, Polk, Sugarcreek and Utica. The Allegheny Formation is mapped at Barkeyville and Clintonville, Corry Sandstone through Riceville Formation at Oil City and Rouseville, and the Pottsville Formation at Pleasantville.
Depth to bedrock in the logs is a median 18 feet around Clintonville and 36 around Utica, with the other eight between 19 and 28. Median yields run from 10 gallons a minute around Pleasantville to 20 around Barkeyville, Cooperstown, Polk, Sugarcreek and Utica. Where a well gives less, the pump and the pressure tank have to be chosen with that in mind, and a constant-pressure upgrade is one way to keep the pressure steady at the tap.
Eight of the 10 towns sit inside a public system on EPA's map, and all eight systems rely on groundwater. Oil City pumps from 15 active wells for 9,608 people, and the General Authority of Franklin from 10 wells for 9,096. The smaller systems run on one to four: Rouseville four, Barkeyville and Clintonville two each, Cooperstown and Sugarcreek one each. Pleasantville Borough Water has no active wells and buys groundwater from Titusville Municipal Water.
Polk and Utica have no system on that map, which isn't proof that no home there is connected; a home on a public line gets its report from the utility. What the systems do to their water, and what the USGS samples say about pH, is on our Venango County treatment page.
Source: Water quality: USGS National Water Information System results for Venango County wells, served through the Water Quality Portal, sampled between 1928 and 2023, retrieved 2026-09-14. Each well counts once, as the median of its samples. The 0.3 mg/L iron and 0.05 mg/L manganese marks are EPA secondary standards, which are aesthetic limits, not health limits. Well depth: USGS groundwater site inventory for Venango County, 13 wells with a recorded depth, retrieved 2026-09-14.
WHY VENANGO COUNTY 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.”
ALSO SERVING
We cover ten counties in two states from the same two offices. If you’re near a county line, either page gets you the same crew.
A LITTLE CLARITY
Yes. Residential and commercial water wells throughout Venango County, plus environmental and geotechnical drilling, with cable tool and air rotary methods chosen for the site conditions and PA DEP permit support handled as part of the project.
The public record says it can be: in USGS results for five Venango County wells, three had a pH below 6.5, water acidic enough to corrode copper and leave blue-green stains. Five wells is not a survey, which is why the answer for your house is a test. Correcting it calls for its own unit, apart from iron or hardness treatment, and it’s another reason to test before buying equipment.
Our Greenville office is at 854 Mercer Rd., Greenville, PA 16125, about 53 minutes and 35.2 miles by road from Franklin. Service calls for Venango County are scheduled from Greenville.
All of them. Our service map lists 10 Venango County communities, including Franklin, Oil City, Barkeyville, Clintonville, Cooperstown, Pleasantville, and the townships between them. If your town is not on the map, call anyway; the county line is the boundary, not the town list.
In USGS records for 7 Venango County wells, the median hardness was 66 mg/L as calcium carbonate, about 3.9 grains per gallon, and 43% of wells were hard or very hard. A softener sized to your test result handles it. The test comes first because hardness varies well to well, even on the same road.
Often. 43% of the Venango County wells in USGS records were above 0.3 mg/L of iron, the level where orange staining starts, and 40% were above 0.05 mg/L of manganese, the level behind black marks and a metallic taste. The FerronX Iron System treats iron and dissolved metals at the point of entry; testing establishes the level and the right configuration.
USGS has depth records for 13 Venango County wells: the median is 130 feet, and the middle half fall between 63 and 200 feet. Your well's depth depends on the formation under your property and the yield your household needs, which is why Chatfield tests water flow rather than drilling to a number.
Talk with the Chatfield team.
(724) 588-2652A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE GOES A LONG WAY
WATER TESTINGWhat a test measures, what the results mean, and what happens next.
WELL DRILLINGWhat drives the price of drilling a well in our region, and what to ask before you sign.
WATER PROBLEMSThe signs, what causes hardness in our region, and how to confirm it.
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.