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Parole board deems Brian Abrosimo too dangerous Aldergrove Star
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Keep conserving water, officials tell residents By JEFF NAGEL Aldergrove Star
A combination of cool, rainy weather over the weekend and Metro Vancouver’s move to tough stage 3 water restrictions appear to have sharply cut water consumption in the region. The region had set a target of cutting water use to no more than 1.2 billion litres of water per day when stage 3 – including a complete ban on lawn sprinkling – was declared
July 20. Regional usage fell from 1.48 billion that day to the 1.2 billion target last Thursday. As wetter weather arrived and fewer residents felt the need to water plants, the numbers dropped further – to 1.05 billion Friday, 1.02 billion Saturday and 1.0 billion Sunday. “Those are good numbers,” Metro water utilities committee chair Darrell Mussatto said. “We’ve had three good
days of cooler weather and people making the adjustment – respecting stage 3.” But he cautioned there are no plans to relax the restrictions – the toughest Metro has imposed in 12 years – and he urged residents to remain vigilant. “We don’t want to be complacent,” Mussatto said. “The reservoirs need much more water than we received on the weekend to get them into a good healthy operating range.”
He estimated 100 millilmetres of rain is required to bring the regional water supply up into the midst of its normal range for this time of year. “We’re going into what is traditionally the driest part of the year,” he noted. If consumption can be held to no more than 1.2 billion litres per day, Metro officials estimate the reservoirs will have enough water to meet demand even if no rain falls until November.
at this time.” A psychological risk A B.C. parole board assessment done on has concluded that Brian Abrosimo is likely to serious- Abrosimo on June 2, concludly harm someone if he is let ed that he is impulsive and has a ‘very high risk to reofout of jail at this time. In 2006, Abrosimo, 52, fend, both generally and with was sentenced to 14 years in sexual violence.’ The parole board noted prison, followed by a 10-year supervision order for abduct- that the emotional damage ing an 11-year-old Langley Abrosimo has inflicted on his girl from a rural Aldergrove victims is permanent and devastating. road. The girl’s family urged In August 2004, he used the parole board to keep his van to knock down two children who were riding Abrosimo behind bars forbicycles along 256 Street, kid- ever. At the hearing, Abrosimo napping the 11-year-old girl, told board members that taping her eyes and mouth he attributed his and driving her to actions to his Surrey where he addiction to meth sexually assaulted and the “monster her. within.” She got out of He assured the van and ran off them he would to a nearby home. never use drugs Her friend was again and that “the left behind in a monster is dead.” ditch, with cuts, But the board bruises and a brofound his observaken wrist, watchtions to be naive ing the van disapBrian Abrosimo and optimistic. In pear. Abrosimo was also con- December 2013, he punched victed of handcuffing and another offender in the face in gagging a sex-trade worker an unprovoked attack. At the parole hearing, before violently assaulting and raping her the month Abrosimo revealed that when prior to the abduction of the he snatched the girl in 2004, he had actually intended to Langley girl. On July 16, the parole keep her for a day or so. Prior to abducting the girl board voted to detain he had altered the appearance Abrosimo until the end of his sentence in 2020, concluding of his van, and placed a matthat “there is no supervision tress in it. There were handprograms that would protect cuffs, bolt cutters and a handthe community adequately gun in the van at the time of SEE: Page 3 from the risk that you present
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