Hello all, please advise if I need to start a new thread, I bought an old farm house in Michigan about 8 years ago. It came with a 30ft well that has an electric pump in our basement an a antique hand pump above the well. I haven’t seen the bottom of the well because it goes down about 10’ and appears to be covered by something- it just looks like dirt but idk. I haven’t tried pulling it up because I’m not sure what’s going on down there with it being connected to the pump in our basement. I want to get the hand pump working but I’m puzzled by the cover. I have installed a second 100’ well for drinking water an plan to run new plumbing to the rest of the house. Looking for any insight about the “floor/cover” 10’ down the well.