Sustainable Sleepy Hollow

We hope you all had an inspiring Earth Day, whether you got your hands dirty at the Peabody Preserve, helped clean up litter downtown, or brought your family to learn about composting at our celebration in Barnhart Park afterwards.

Our next SHEAC/CSC meeting is Monday, May 1st at 7pm.  It will take place in-person at Village Hall.  If you prefer to join by zoom, use the link below. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83779693653?pwd=K0VWbkVMaE5WN0dYVjhqay9Qdmhrdz09

Meeting ID: 837 7969 3653

Passcode: 497157

By phone:  646 558 8656 US 

We will discuss feedback from Earth Month activities, updates on  the Food Scrap Recycling program, next steps for the Zero Waste Working Group, the May launch of a Walkable Tarrytowns survey and upcoming outreach opportunities such as tabling at the TaSH.  We hope to see you there!

Conservation issues we’re working on:

Indian Point Decommissioning
On March 28th, the Sleepy Hollow Board of Trustees unanimously passed a “Resolution in Opposition to the Discharge of Contaminated Water into the Hudson River”. Check it out!

Riverkeeper hosted this webinar regarding the planned discharge of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River by Holtec, the owner of Indian Point.

Save Pocantico Lake
On March 30th, SHEAC submitted a letter and presented in-person testimony at a Public Hearing of the Mount Pleasant Planning Board, opposing a development plan to build 31 houses on a hilltop high above Pocantico Lake. We believe it would pose a severe threat to the lake, the County Parks surrounding the building site, and the areas downstream in the Pocantico River watershed, including the Village of Sleepy Hollow. A third Public Hearing is scheduled for May 4th at 7:30 pm.