There is a hole in my meter lid. The hole is intended to allow a touch-read sensor to be installed. The hole should be plugged if the sensor has not yet been installed. There is a County crew working in my neighborhood. They have cut and removed the blacktop, but they are not digging.
State law forbids the opening of a trench without the underground utilities being marked.
Occasionally, it takes two or three hours for the locators to arrive because of a backlog of work. As soon as the locators arrive, the work will resume. A fire hydrant in my neighborhood has an Out of Service sign on it. Out of Service fire hydrants should be repaired as soon as possible.