CRAWFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 58 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
Around Venango, the logged wells tend to finish at moderate depth: half of the 446 depth logs within 5 miles stopped between 60 and 95 feet. Rock came at a median 26 feet in the logs that note it. Yield is the figure to check on your own lot, since it still varies from one well to the next.
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WHAT WE DO IN VENANGO
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.
Crawford County’s USGS record covers hardness, iron, manganese and pH, but not nitrate, arsenic or PFAS. A certified lab test can check those, and where one turns up, Atlas Filtri Oasis Sanic reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink is the usual answer.
A well here usually has casing down to rock, then open hole until the flow test shows enough water. Chatfield drills by air rotary or cable tool, matched to the ground, and offers PA DEP permit assistance for a new well.
Half of 427 logged yields fall between 8 and 20 gallons per minute, around a median of 15. Where a well lands in that spread decides the pump and tank. Once the yield is known, a constant-pressure upgrade can keep the pressure level as taps open.
WELLS AROUND VENANGO
The 446 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Venango, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 60–95 ft
middle half 8–20 gpm
middle half 16–43 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
In the 446 depth logs around the town, a quarter stopped by 60 feet, the median is 75, and three in four finished by 95. By median depth, that ties the area for 12th of 16 Crawford County towns.
Those figures don’t set your well’s depth, since the hole is finished when it gives enough water, not at a planned number. They do show that only a quarter of logged wells went past 95 feet, which is worth knowing when you set a budget. What a new well costs explains what else moves the price, and residential well drilling explains how a home well is planned.
The geologic map puts the Venango Formation at the town center, a Late Devonian unit of siltstone, conglomerate, sandstone and shale. Each well’s own log shows the rock that hole actually passed through, which can differ from the map.
Your own well’s yield matters most, because the pump and tank are sized around it. Of 427 logs with one, the median is 15 gallons per minute, with a quarter at 8 or less and a quarter at 20 or more. A submersible pump is matched to your own well’s flow test, so it never pumps faster than the well can give, and a pressure tank is sized to the household.
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 VENANGO CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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“We bought a new home November 1st, 2024 and low and behold it had a collapsed well. After several quotes, we chose Chatfield drilling, and we’re glad we did! Matt & his team arrived quickly to assess the situation, and formulate a plan to get the H2O flowing again. Even through the holidays, they did not waiver. Eric their driller worked hard in the brutal NE Ohio cold to pound a well for us. We are beyond pleased, and have fantastic water!”
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 58 minutes and 41 miles by road from Venango. Service calls for Venango are scheduled from there.
Venango and the municipalities around it: Woodcock, Venango Township, Cambridge Township, Cambridge Springs, Woodcock Township, Saegertown, Cussewago Township, Hayfield Township, Edinboro, Blooming Valley. Beyond those, the rest of the 16 Crawford County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 446 domestic wells within 5 miles of Venango: the median is 75 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 60 and 95 feet. The median well was logged at 15 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 26 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
No. This page covers the town of that name in Crawford County. The name turns up underground as well: the rock unit mapped at the town center is called the Venango Formation. Chatfield serves the town from the Greenville office, and the Crawford County water treatment page covers what the county’s USGS well samples show.
Not usually, going by where the logs put rock. Rock came at a median 26 feet in 250 logs, with a quarter reaching it by 16 and three in four by 43. Casing is usually set down to rock, which makes it a modest run on most lots, with open rock below. Your well’s log records where rock began.
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