2" steel wells with 25-30' drop pipes with foot valve on the bottom is extremely common for this area. Everything now is becoming 4" PVC, but those wells were the norm for a long time. your setup isn't rare, quite the opposite. A rock well in this area doesn't need a screen before the pump as it shouldn't pump trash.
as I posted earlier, PVC drop pipes are used inside 2" steel wells because it's much more reliable than pulling strait off the 2" steel pipe.
no lligetfa... 30' PVC drop pipes are used because shallow jet pumps cant pull past 25', so setting a foot valve any deeper is only a waste of PVC pipe. Not sure how they do things in canada, but I have a pretty good idea how they are done where I am. get off the mud well, there is no such thing in these parts. He has a standard 2" well set in rock and the casing is rusted out letting sand in.. Like I said, I'll bet 1100$ on it. From where I sit, it seems lligetfa should have set casing on the bedrock and drill it out (if the rock has water) and he might have a halfway descent well. but that's canada and I'm in NE Fl.
Now that I have a better understand of everything, I have 5 questions:
1) Earlier you mentioned using the 1" pipe and seals. Is there a reason after I pumped out all the sand not to go ahead and install a 1.25" pipe and seal? One concern is I could not find inside couplers for the 1" pipe. Maybe that does not matter, but the outside couplers are shorter and I was a little worried that when bending that pipe to get it in, I might be weakening that coupler area. Plus to use the leather seals I saw I would need to use inside couplers or at least it looked that way to me at first glance.
2) You mentioned in one post setting the seal 20'-30' above the casing depth. Should I not try and get this seal as close to the bottom as possible. And should I put in several seals at various heights as backup.
3) Once I put in my 1" or 1.25" pipe with seals and I go back and use a foot valve and if I have problems with the foot valve sometime in the future, would I be able to get that pipe back out.
4) This might still reflect my lack of knowledge in this area, but does it make a difference (outside the seal depth placement issue) how deep the 1" or 1.25" pipe goes down? Any advantage to putting it 60' vs 30'? I assume in this case where I need the seal to go down as far as possible I would want the pipe to go down as far as possible.
5) Another novice question, couldn't the pump, pump out all the water in the pipe and then it would have to wait for the water to flow back in through the two inch hole in the bottom.