Well Pressure

My well stopped working earlier and realized the plug was burned up. I eliminated the plug and hard wired it in and noticed the pump would not shut off. The pressure never went above 42psi. When I shut it off the pressure quickly dropped to 30psi and kicked back on again. When trip the breaker all the water in my house immediately runs back into the well. I have a submersible pump.

Maybe a hole in the drop pipe or a bad check valve at the pump. Either way the water should not be going back into the pump and the fact that it will not build pressure points to a hole in the drop pipe.

If it is the drop pipe, what are my options?

from ur post i agree with TW. sucks but all u can do is pull pump and replace the pipe.

Ja, with a submersed pump, most likely the pipe got chafed from torque movement. Just hope the leak isn't underground. A friend had a new rock well put in and later was having the same problem you describe. He had noticed that his old mud well was overflowing constantly and thought nothing of it. Turns out when they put in the new well, they just cut into the existing pipe and elbowed off from it. The elbow wore through and the water taking the path of least resistance ran down the pipe to the old well, filling it to overflowing.

At about the same time, his neighbor had his electric meter replaced and was commenting that his electric bills were now much smaller. Meanwhile, my friend's bills were going through the roof from the pump running constantly but he thought they wired the neighbor's meter wrong and it was diverting to his meter. He fought with the electrical utility for months before discovering the leak in the pipe.
Too funny!