[https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/northwest/washington-state-board-to-uphold-temperature-limits-in-columbia-snake-rivers/article_93336c74-a746-521a-8fa1-ddf19d6ec5e6.html?utm_medium](https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/northwest/washington-state-board-to-uphold-temperature-limits-in-columbia-snake-rivers/article_93336c74-a746-521a-8fa1-ddf19d6ec5e6.html?utm_medium) The combined effects of climate change and change in the flow of the river caused by dams today regularly push temperatures above safe levels in reservoirs in the Columbia and Snake rivers in some areas for weeks at at time. The Lower Monumental Dam is on the Snake River.