Ummm... NO. the water column will fall to within about 30 feet from the static water table so if his water table is 130 feet below the topside checkvalve, the top 100 feet of pipe will have a vacuum and will not have water in it. When the pump comes on, it needs to fill that 100 feet of pipe.
It works just like a mercury barometer except that mercury is heavier so you don't need as tall of a column as you do with water.
I guess I need a clear straw about 130’ long to see what you are talking about. I would bet that if the straw was full of water and I placed my thumb on top, the straw would still be full of water except for maybe the top 6” or so. But I don’t know how to figure that.
I have seen many wells holding vacuum from hundreds of feet deep. When you open a ball valve at the top of the well the vacuum is so strong it could suck your arm in easily. It can whistle so loud it hurts your ears. But I can also hear the pump running backwards and see the water level in the well rise. This makes me think the water did not fall out the bottom of the pipe until I opened the ball valve at the top. This is the same thing I see with a straw in my glass of tea.
I also know from experience that when you start a pump when the drop pipe is under vacuum, the water hammer thump hitting the above ground check valve happens within a second. Some of these wells had 3” or 4” drop pipe maybe 1,000’ feet deep. Even with a 100 GPM pump you would wait a long time for water to hit the surface the first time you turned on the pump. So long in fact that we use to keep putting our hand over the pipe while the air was being pushed out, just to make sure the pump was still running. But if you didn’t open a ball valve and let the air in, turning on the pump meant water would hit the above ground check valve almost instantly. With a good check valve up top and a bad one at the bottom, you have a very strong vacuum, but a very small void in the pipe to refill.
I would be curious to know how strong a vacuum it would take to make a 1 gallon size void?