What we did for a similar well (minus the livestock) at our camp was to put a half-tile and cover above ground and parge the ground-level joints between the tiles with mortar. A previous owner did use the water for drinking but we don't-even though it tested 0-0 last summer.

There was a feed line to the old house cut into the casing about 3' down. The feed line ran through clay tile (that ironically used to drain a lot of water from the well to the cellar during the spring. I broke into the clay tile about 5' from the well, build a wood platform and put in new feed line to a hand pump on the platform. Other people drill a hold in a cover and install a hand pump.

There's enough flow from the well for our needs so I haven't bothered vacuuming the bottom. If it's only 10' deep, a rental trash pump probably has enough lift to do some vacuuming. The water flow from a fairly shallow drilled well in the Township improved a lot after a 1,000 gallons was pumped from the township water tanker was pumped in at the bottom. The water tanker is for fire fighting, but its pump doesn't quite produce enough pressure to call it a fire truck. I'm not sure how good an idea that is but it's something that was done to test the pump the recently acquired tanker.

There are often quite a few environmental regs about such things. Unused wells are supposed be filled many places and sometimes doing what seems like maintenance may require the whole thing to be brought up to current codes. You might consider checking around quietly to see if regs in your area apply to what you're thinking of doing.

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