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B-2 Wednesday, March 2, 1988 * The Modesto Bee 'Metro/The Region in Brief Nursing home may close STOCKTON — A Stockton nursing 'home may be forced to either shut down or be sold because of alleged state Health 'Code violations that contributed to the death of an elderly patient. The state Health Services Department last week "tined the owners of the Villa Rehabilitation Center $71,000, charging that the facility allowed a patient to become dehydrated, contributing to his 'death. The state also charged that the Villa center didn't treat bed sores of another patient and allowed a resident to get drugs from an unlocked medication cart. The Villa's six-month license expired Tuesday and won't be renewed because of the citations, the health ;agency ruled. The license has been extended until April 15 so the owners will have time to sell the facility or place residents in new homes. Villa .administrator Anthony Lopez said he .,+ants a state review team to evaluate the Water in By TONY WALKER Bee staff writer TURLOCK — Turlock "Irrigation Dis- trict farmers were put on notice Tuesday that the appearance of water in the dis- trict's irrigation canals may be only a temporary condition. "We would like everybody who needs to irrigate to go ahead and do so because we may be taking the water out in a couple of weeks," said Richard Clauss, TID board president. The district began filling its canal sys- tem Tuesday with water from Turlock Lake. It normally takes about 72 hours to prime the canal network and get the sys- tem ready for irrigation deliveries, offi- cials said. Water deliveries are scheduled to begin Friday, about a week and a half earlier canals notes lthan usual due todry-year conditions: "There is a possibility this may not be the start of the regular irrigation season," TID public information officer Robert Nees said. "It could be, but if we get heavy precipitation there is a good chance we'll take the water out and delay the start of the regular irrigation season like we did last year." As with most early irrigations, the em- phasis is on the initial deep -root watering of fruit and nut tree crops. Of the 162,000 acres of irrigable land in the district, 38 percent — 61,000 acres — is planted in almonds, walnuts, peaches and other tree crops. And, with the lack of measurable rain- fall during most of February, those trees are real thirsty. The storm front moving through the Painting the pool valley had dumped only slightly more than a half-inch of rain since Saturday — barely enough to satisfy the watering needs of grain and wheat crops under cultivation in the district. Initial irrigation will be accomplished by using a mixture of reservoir water and water pumped from district and private wells along canals, Nees said. Chris Kiriakou, power resource depart- ment manager, is compiling the most re- cent weather data and forecasts to help map out a water and power generation schedule for the remainder of the year. The decision will rely heavily on the most recent forecasts and pred' ns is- sued by the state Department Water Resources. "This is the one that gives us a pretty good feel for the water year," Kiriakou County an envi