Cheat Lake
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Cheat Lake is an eight mile long reservoir on the Cheat River in Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA. It was originally named Lake Lynn, but the Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Cheat Lake as the reservoir's name in 1976. Cheat Lake's size is about 1,730 surface acres.
Cheat Lake Dam is located directly south of the Mason-Dixon Line border with Pennsylvania. The dam is run by eleven employees and has a generating capacity of 52 megawatts (52,000 Kilowatts). Cheat Lake Dam's total length across the Cheat River is approximately 1,000 feet. It began its operation on May 31, 1926.
[edit] External links
- CheatLake.com
- Cheat Lake Environment & Recreation Association (CLEAR)
- Cheat Lake Today
- Survey number HAER WV-30 - Lake Lynn Hydroelectric Power House & Dam, Cheat River, Morgantown vicinity, Monongalia County, WV
- Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from Google Maps, or Yahoo! Maps, or Windows Live Local
- Satellite image from Google Maps, Windows Live Local, WikiMapia
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
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