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Thursday, May 21, 2020
EPA says federal dams raise water temperature in Snake River
Associated Press
LEWISTON, Idaho —
An Environmental Protec-
tion Agency report pro-
vides details about how
federal government dams
in the Snake and Columbia
river system raise summer
water temperatures, hurting
endangered salmon runs.
The report made pub-
lic Tuesday said dams on
both rivers play a role in
raising water temperatures
above 68 degrees, which is
the point at which the water
becomes harmful to salmon
and steelhead.
The Lewiston Tribune
said the report also noted
that the Snake River often
exceeds temperature stan-
dards before it enters Wash-
ington from Idaho, as does
the Columbia River when
it enters Washington from
Canada.
The report is likely to
play a role in the long-sim-
mering debate over the role
dams play in the decline of
threatened and endangered
Snake River salmon and
steelhead.
The dams generate elec-
tricity, allow cargo to be
moved on river barges and
provide irrigation water to
farmers.
By slowing the fl ow and
increasing the surface area
exposed to the sun, the
AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios, File
In this April 11, 2018, fi le photo, water fl ows through a fi sh ladder designed to help migrating fi sh swim through the Lower
Granite Dam on the Snake River near Almota, Wash.
dams cause the Snake River
to increase as much as 5.7
degrees, according to the
report.
Temperatures
higher
than 68 degrees can cause
adult fi sh to stop their
migrations
and
swim
around aimlessly like they
are lost during their return
from the ocean. When riv-
ers warmed into the 70s in
2015 and stayed there for
weeks, there were signifi -
cant fi sh kills.
While there are other
sources of rising tempera-
tures in the river, the dams
play the largest role, the
report said.
Environmental groups
hailed the report as a needed
step toward lowering tem-
peratures and improving
conditions for salmon and
steelhead.
Following the 2015 heat
event that killed off sock-
eye, a coalition of river
preservation groups, includ-
ing Columbia Riverkeeper,
Snake River Waterkeeper
and Idaho Rivers United,
went to court to force the
EPA to fi nish writing the
report that had been stalled
for nearly two decades.
“We are pleased that
it’s done and identifi es the
hot water problems on the
Columbia and Snake riv-
ers,” said Brett VandenHeu-
vel, executive director of
Columbia Riverkeeper.
It will largely be up to
the states to determine
how water quality prob-
lems identifi ed in the report
should be addressed. Van-
denHeuvel said remov-
ing the lower Snake River
dams or putting holes in
them would help meet water
quality standards as well as
boost salmon and steelhead.
“The water tempera-
tures in the Snake are so hot
in the summer that I think
dam removal is the best way
to restore salmon and pro-
vide water cool enough for
their survival,” he said.
But Kurt Miller, execu-
tive director of Northwest
River Partners, would pre-
fer that regulators in Ore-
gon and Washington reex-
amine their water quality
standards.
“The states may have
established water quality
standards that are unattain-
able even if the lower Snake
and mid-Columbia river
dams were not in place,”
he said. “It would be unfair
to penalize the communi-
ties that rely on hydropower
for river temperatures way
beyond their control.”
Environmental groups
have long called for four
dams on the Snake River
in Eastern Washington to
be removed to help salmon
and steelhead migrate to
the ocean and back. But the
dams have plenty of sup-
porters, including some
members of Congress and
business groups.
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