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Cheat Lake is a 13-mile-long (21 km) reservoir on the Cheat River in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. [2] It was originally named Lake Lynn, but the Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Cheat Lake as the reservoir's name in 1976. [1] Cheat Lake is located immediately downstream of the 10-mile-long (16 km) Cheat Canyon.
Cheat Lake is located at (39.666538, -79.852683 [ 1 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the Cheat Lake CDP has a total area of 15.8 square miles (41 km 2 ), of which 14.3 square miles (37 km 2 ) is land and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2 ) (10.3%) is water.
The Cheat is formed at Parsons, West Virginia, by the confluence of Shavers Fork and Black Fork. Black Fork is fed by the Blackwater River and by the Dry, Glady, and Laurel Forks — these are traditionally referred to as the five Forks of Cheat. (The "High Falls of Cheat" [15 feet/4.6 m high] is a few miles upstream of Bemis on Shavers
Aug. 29—MORGANTOWN — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has joined the chorus of voices opposing Lake Lynn Generation's proposal to lower the level of Cheat Lake by 3 feet. Capito wrote to the Federal ...
Oct. 2—MORGANTOWN — Lake Lynn Generation's proposal to lower the level of Cheat Lake in order to maintain the required level of dissolved oxygen came to an official end on Wednesday. In a ...
The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) is an agency of the government of the U.S. state of West Virginia.While formerly known as the cabinet-level Department of Natural Resources, it is now part of the West Virginia Department of Commerce. [1]
Shavers Fork, via the Cheat, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 214 sq mi (550 km 2). [3] It flows for much of its length through the Monongahela National Forest, and drains mostly rural and forested areas. 97% of the river's basin is forested, and two-thirds of it is public land.
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