The village of Sleepy Hollow was finally able to solve a long standing and critical drinking water storage problem which the help of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Trust agreed to supply the village with a 99-year land lease to enable it to built a 1.6 million gallon underground storage tank into one of the hills above Lake Road. There will be no cost to Sleepy Hollow for the use of the land that is owned by the Trust which is managed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Major Ken Wray praised the Trust for it's very generous act which solves the village's predicament and now also allows for the possible residential developments on the former Castle Oil and GM sites located on the Hudson River. The substantial height of the site will provide the needed pressure to feed water to the village's pumping station at the Tarrytown Lakes. There will be no unsightly tank visible since it will be almost all buried with only about a foot of it protruding above ground which will be easily covered by landscaping foliage.
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