GUILDERLAND — The ban on sprinkling lawns in Guilderland will continue until Albany’s water main break can be resolved, announced the town’s Water and Wastewater superintendent, Timothy McIntyre, on Wednesday. The city of Albany has indicated that it is going to be at least another 10 days, McIntyre said.

The sprinkling ban was first implemented after a water main break in Albany on Aug. 2. Guilderland usually gets about one to two million gallons of water per day from Albany in the summer, McIntyre said, but since the break has not received any.

“Right now there’s no water from Albany, so we have to maintain sufficient levels without that source,” McIntyre said recently. “Our primary source is the Watervliet Reservoir, and then we also have two secondary wells, in Westmere and Fort Hunter.”

McIntyre estimated that Guilderland residents are currently using three- to four-million gallons a day. In a normal summer, he said, this would reach six- to seven-million.

“Our biggest concern is having enough for domestic water usage,” McIntyre said. He added that the other concern is keeping a supply in the water tanks sufficient to fight any fires.

Deputy Chief of Police Curtis Cox said that officers have been keeping an eye out for any residences that are in violation of the sprinkling ban.

“When we do find violations,” he said, “we’ve been knocking on doors and handing them notices, letting them know what’s going on.”

McIntyre noted that exclusions to the ban are sprinkler systems on private wells and hand watering of vegetable and flower gardens.