Just five days after a mysterious Amtrak derailment in Amherst in which hazardous chlorine (used as a poison gas in WWI and currently by Muslims in Iraq) nearly caused a catastrophe, another unusual accident occurred just miles away. A vehicle apparently sheared off a fire hydrant in a 1 a.m. ‘accident’, effectively cutting off the water supply to a large area of town.
Disaster Narrowly Avoided
It’s been 10 days since the disastrous train derailment, and both Station Road (a major highway linking communities) and the Amtrak NE tracks through Amherst, are still blocked while over 300 ft of railroad track are being replaced. Still no official word on what caused the near catastrophe.
If the train ‘accident’ been timed just a second or two more accurately the area would have had a difficult time dealing with the tragedy without water or communications (the fiber optic cable was also destroyed).
Accident disrupts water service – Amherst Bulletin June 10, 2001
Water was shut off in portions of South Amherst on the morning of June 5 after a car ran over a fire hydrant on Bay Road at 1:18 a.m. The operator of the vehicle was not located.
The damage to the hydrant, which was repaired by the Department of Public Works, left a large part of that section of town without water for several hours.
Police are continuing to investigate the accident. The driver, if found, could be charged with leaving the scene of a property damage accident, police said.
The Amherst Bulletin story leaves out a couple of important points …
1) no one saw the ‘car’ at 1:18 a.m.
2) a large ‘vehicle may have deliberately targeted the Bay Road water system (which had previously been identified by the Pioneer Valley and Amherst as a security risk)
Amherst report identifing vulnerabilities of local water systems.
3) most vehicles, even large SUVs, would have sustained significant damage in such a collision.
4) “the driver, if found,” could likely be charged with a lot more significant crimes than “leaving the scene of a property damage accident”
5) The driver may have simply been following the instructions of Hampshire mosque’s Dr. Hazratji, and the apostle of Allah, that Muslim students should perpetrate violence and warfare, whether they like it or not.
6) Hampshire College, a center of jihad activity and Islamic thuggery against Jews, is also on Bay Rd. just minutes away.
You can contact Javeria Mir, a moderate Pakistani Muslim director of Hampshire mosque and supporter of Dr. Hazratji, at Amherst’s Health Department if you have any questions about the safety of your drinking water.
Amherst, MA – Official Website
The Town water supply system currently has seven sources that include the Atkins Reservoir in Shutesbury and Amherst, the Pelham Reservoirs (Hills, Hawley, and Intake), the South Amherst Wells (#1 & #2), the Brown Well (#3) in Belchertown, the Lawrence Swamp Well (#4) and the Bay Road Well (#5) in South Amherst. The surface water supply areas at Atkins and Pelham, and Wells 1, 2 & 3 are used year round to satisfy the required demands. These five sources supply approximately 90 percent of the total water produced. There are also four water tanks – two at Orchard Hill, one at Village Park, and one on the Mt Holyoke Range.
Don’t you think that the chlorine intentionally put in the drinking water at the treatment plant is a bigger threat to citizens that some random drunk driver who hits a fire hydrant?! Good grief! This is pure conjecture, based on fear and prejudice.