7 years ago I had a well drilled, only cased for 20'. The well report said the depth was 340 & static line was 240. I watched the pump guy drop the drop pipe & pump to 290'. After a few weeks the control box was taken out by lighting & pump guy came to replace it. Once he replaced the box, we fired up the water & it was really dirty. So the pump guy said let me pull your pump. He went to pull it & said it was stuck & this was my/drillers fault for not lining the well. The water cleared up & since the pump was running fine I left it alone. 7 years later the pump was going out, but I still had water to shower, toilets, etc just not enough for yard, but it was getting worse by the week. I called the dilling co that drilled it & they new it was stuck from me telling them 7 years ago, they came out with a small truck & boom & couldn't get the pump to budge. He left and came back with a much larger truck & broke the the pipe right below the pitless adaptor. He said it must of been a bad cave in & I could keep messing around with this well but it probably would be cheaper to drill a new well & they could come the next day & start. Well 1 day turned into 2, than 3, & so I called another pump guy and told him the issue and I thought if we could find the cave in maybe we could drop used pipe in and bang around hoping the rocks would fall. I found 300' ft of free pipe & the new pump guy showed up. He dropped a camera in the well & my static level was 103' & the cave in was 260' with the pump below the cave in at 290'. We dropped the used pipe in & couldn't get the cave in to break free. I really can't afford to drill a new well & I told the new pump guy that. He said if we can get the pressure tank out of the well (30' deep) than we could drop 4" pvc liner in & drop a new pump to 250' just above the cave in & hopefully get enough water. We were able to get the pressure tank out. So are plan for tomorrow is to set new liner & pump & hopefully it works. I called the driller back & said we are going to try & make the current well work. He said that they were planning on showing up tomorrow to start drilling & that his other job took longer than expected. Here's my dilemma. I had enough running water to make ends meet & the driller came out broke my pipe so now I have no water. Said he'd start drilling the next day & 6 days later he's ready. I've hopefully found a way to make the current well work with the new pump guy. The driller invoiced me for $1500 for coming out twice in one day (had to go get bigger truck to pull pipe), & left me high and dry for 6 days. I've got a family of six. Plus original well log static level was 240' & now it 100'. Did the driller scam me 7 yrs ago just to get more footage or can static level flucuate 140' with an 8' drilled hole? Thoughts? Thanks