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...Valley farm water supplies to 40% of the contracted amount. Many of the farmers in the region have been allotted only one sixth of the water supply they need to sustain their crops through the crucial summer months. "This is a death sentence," says almond and wine farmer Shawn Coburn...
...brilliant gold this time of year, are limp and brown. Farmers pace the dusty fields, eyeing their almond trees and grape vines, both heavy with unripe fruit, trying to decide which ones to allow to die. "It's like which kid to keep and which to get rid of," Coburn says...
...first phase of the project—estimated to have cost $2 million—began with construction in Lowell and Winthrop because the University believed work there could be finished before September, Associate Dean of the College Martha Coburn predicted. But renovations continued into the fall term...
...We’re starting on a modest scale in order that we learn it properly and don’t get ourselves in a pickle,” Coburn said...
...According to current Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67, who was then the assistant dean for housing, renovations of the other River Houses occurred during the following summers. Coburn emphasized the importance of flexibility in construction, such as a summer building schedule, as a way to avoid inconvenience in housing students, and to allow for the postponement of certain work at any time...