WASHINGTON, April 21 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility issued the following news: On the westward side of the Rocky Mountains, the Upper Colorado River Basin has historically been a wintertime storage bin for snowpack, the compressed remnants of months of falling snow. As the snowpack melts, the resulting runoff joins water sources from other mountain watersheds and fills the coffers of streams and rivers fanning out into the Wes  more