No, you will be fine. This installation is actually one of the cleaner ones out there. Those outdoor T1 NIDs are pretty well-built and heavily-gasketed. As for the underground cable, that's not your problem anyway. No matter how good of a job they do installing the NID, it's still only going to function as well as the cable feeding it.

If you want to see a real horror story, check this one out:

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By the way, the customer decided that it was too expensive to clean this up.

Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX