Lower Granite Water Remains Cool; Snake River Sockeye Run Nearly Complete At 272 Fish
Despite continuing high temperatures over the Columbia River basin and in the Clearwater and Snake river basins, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has managed to keep the tailwater temperature at Lower Granite Dam on the Snake under the 68 degree Fahrenheit limit set by the 2014 salmon/steelhead biological opinion for the federal power system.