The state Department of Environmental Protection declared a water supply emergency in Bridgewater on Saturday.

Some residents of Bridgewater have faced an ongoing “dirty water” crisis for weeks as brown water has come out of faucets and filled tubs and toilets, according to NBC10 Boston .

In a Town Council meeting last Tuesday, town leaders said they’d neglected the water system for 10 years and the resolution could take two years, the news station reported.

The water supply emergency was declared on Saturday as the town “works diligently to improve our critical water infrastructure” with “the utmost seriousness,” Bridgewater Water Superintendent William Young said in an announcement posted to Facebook .

The declaration extended the town’s total outdoor watering ban and established

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