Clods

So the Austin water people seem to have dug up the yard again. This time there are no caliche stains on the sidewalk, but the earth's still wet so that the clay soil is forming balls of earth that are scattered all over on top of the St. Augustine where they didn't go back into the dig. Are these signs that the promised new meter has been installed? I'm sure not going to lift off that heavy cast-iron plate to just to look for a meter. The taps were sputtery and the noise in the pipes wasn't so bad. Does that mean that the lines have been flushed?