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The Tarrytown Reservoir is an storage
reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...
in
Tarrytown, New York Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, approximately north of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North ...
. It was completed in 1897 by the Village of Tarrytown as the village's main storage reservoir. The reservoir was formed by the Tarrytown Waterworks Dam which impounded a tributary of the
Saw Mill River The Saw Mill River is a tributary of the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York, United States. It flows from an unnamed pond north of Chappaqua to Getty Square in Yonkers, where it empties into the Hudson as that river's southernmost t ...
. The reservoir itself has a maximum capacity of . The Tarrytown Waterworks Dam is earthen, high, long and sits at the head of a drainage area. The reservoir was decommissioned in 1993.


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{{Authority control Tarrytown, New York Reservoirs in Westchester County, New York Reservoirs in New York (state) Protected areas of Westchester County, New York 1897 establishments in New York (state)