Cheat River

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The Cheat River is a 78.3-mile (126.0 km) tributary of the Monongahela River east of West Virginia and southwest of Pennsylvania in the United States. Through the Ohio River, Cheat and Monongahela are part of the Mississippi River Basin. Due to the ruggedness of the surrounding Allegheny Mountains, Cheat remains very remote with some settlements or developments along its banks. The upstream area is in the Cheat-Potomac Ranger District in the Monongahela National Forest.

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Geografi Edit

Cheat formed in Parsons, West Virginia, by meeting Shavers Fork and Black Fork. The Black Fork is fed by the Blackwater River and by Dry Forks, Glady, and Laurel - these are traditionally referred to as the five Fork Cheats . (The High Falls of Cheat is a few miles upstream of Bemis in Shavers Fork.) From the Parsons Cheat River flows in general to the north through Tucker and Preston counties, past Rowlesburg towns and Albright. Then it flows through an impressive cliff - Cheat Canyon - northeast of Albright, collects Big Sandy Creek before entering Monongalia County, where a hydro-electric dam just south of the Pennsylvania border makes it widen as the Cheat Lake reservoir. Then flows for a short distance through southwest Fayette County, Pennsylvania, before joining the Monongahela River at Point Marion, Pennsylvania. Upstream of the dam, Cheat is one of the largest river basins in the eastern United States.

Cheat Mountain, the high and rugged ridge, runs about 80 kilometers south of the northernmost tip, just a few miles west of the meeting in Parsons.

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Name Edit

The Indian name of Delaware (Lenape) for Cheat reported is Ach-sin-ha-nac , which means "rocky river". The "Cheat River" has been variously reported to have been named for (1) French (or Indian) explorers named Cheat or Chaet, (2) the abundance of cheat grasses along the banks (perhaps misidentified ice grains), or (3) - the deepest part of which contains a whirlpool that might "deceive" the people in their lives by drowning it. None of these theories have strong documentary support, but the latter is the most frequently quoted.

Historical name Edit

Menurut Sistem Informasi Nama Geografis, Sungai Cheat Sebelumnya dikenal sebagai:

• Ach-sin-ha-nac
• Achsinhanac
• Cheal River
• Sungai Chealt
• Sungai Eleat
• Sungai Wilmoth

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Histori Edit

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In 1756, the Eckarly family became the first white settlers to move to the Cheat River Valley when they lodged at Dunkard's Bottom in what is now Preston County, West Virginia. They, and some in the immediate vicinity, were soon forced to leave their homes by hostile Indians and no further settlement until after the end of the French and Indian Wars (1754-1763). In October 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon completed their famous survey on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border shortly after expanding it to the intersection of the Cheat River just above his encounter with Monongahela. (The party was forced to stop a few miles west on Dunkard Creek near Mount Morris, Pennsylvania at this time, their Iroquois guides refused to go further, having reached the border of their land with Lenape, with whom they were enemies.) According to George W. Atkinson (1876), "From 1765 to 1774 there were relatively few attacks carried out against white invaders by the Indians. [Paris Treaty] [1763] generated general peace along the border, was sufficient generally obeyed by all the savage tribes. years blessed and fostered in border settlements, suddenly destroyed by the murder of some friendly Indians, in 1774, on the river Monongahela and Cheat, on this white man's side caused a general attack by the Indians over all border settlements. "

The Cheat River valley is part of a much larger area that was disputed in the 1770s by the Pennsylvania and Virginia Colonies. (This was before the parties agreed to extend the Mason-Dixon line west of Maryland.) Virginia attempted to manage this vast area as the West Augusta District between 1774 and 1776, after which divided the District into three districts, the Cheat River became part of Monongalia County. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania tries to keep an eye on it as part of an overlapping Westmoreland County. After additional surveys, and the resolution of the Virginia-Pennsylvania border dispute in the 1780s, it was determined that all but the bottom 3 miles of Cheat were within the state of Virginia. The Cheat River state remained part of Monongalia County until 1791 when the county was divided into the smaller Monongalia and Randolph County regions.

19th century Edit

Virginia General Assembly authorized the first two ferries at Cheat in 1806. On January 2, a ferry in Monongalia County was approved on James Stafford's Charles Stuart property. On January 18, the Assembly authorized a second ferry in Monongalia County from Samuel Jackson's workshop location to Charles Magill. Another action in 1806 officially made a toss for financing the construction of the toll bridge across the Cheat River near Dunkard's Bottom. The worries include Michael Kern, John Steally, Augustus Werninger, Ralph Barkshire, and William N. Jarrett. The Assembly also authorized in 1806 the construction of a factory dam on the Monongahela River, the Cheat River, the Tygart River River, or the West Fork of the Monongahela River.

Along with the rest of western Virginia, the Cheat River Valley became part of the new state of West Virginia in 1863.

20th century Edit

A state militia facility, Camp Dawson, was founded on the banks of Cheat in Preston County in 1909 and continues to operate today.

1985 flood
In November 1985, heavy rains caused massive flooding on Cheat, essentially destroying the small town of Albright. The river flow is estimated at 190,000 cubic feet per second, much larger than the normal flow from 1,000 to 5,000 cubic feet per second. Major floods also caused the Cheat River to leave its banks and flood the small town of Rowlesburg. The city lost many businesses, and many families left their homes or lands that they owned. Floods also wiped out schools in Rowlesburg, which led to the consolidation of high schools for the area. The destruction was caused not so much by the flow of water, but by the repeated river repetition by the debris under various roads and railroad bridges that crossed Cheat. As floods strike the river, the water will rise behind an unobstructed bridge, break through an accidental dam, and pick up more debris that will block the river at the next bridge location, repeating the process.

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Pollution Edit

Around Albright, Cheat has been plagued by pollution, especially the acid mine drainage. Although Albright's downstream rocks have been rust-colored brown, and the river has a very low fish population under Albright, water quality has made slow improvements since the 1990s. Friends of the Cheat, the local river advocacy organization, has been instrumental in promoting remediation, cleaning, river management, and education.

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Whitewater recreation Edit

The Cheat Canyon section of the Cheat River (from Albright to Jenkinsburg, West Virginia), featuring Class IV rafting (and Class V rapids at the top), has become a favorite destination for kayaking and white water rafting. On the first weekend in May of each year, rowers gather from many states to attend the Cheat Festival. A very popular whitewater race - Cheat River Race - took place at Cheat Canyon 10 miles (16 km) on Friday that weekend. Unlike the majority of boiling water races, which use staggered start, these races use early mass (where all participants start at the same time). For the first few miles, the oars should avoid each other, apart from the danger of the flood that the river presents. The race, which usually attracts 150 people, is often referred to as the largest water race in existence.

The Cheat Narrows section of the Cheat River (upstream Albright) is also used by the whitewater rowers, and features Class II and III rapids.

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See also Edit

• List of Pennsylvania rivers
• List of rivers in West Virginia

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References Edit

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External links Edit

• US. Geological Survey: PA flow flow station
• Inventory of the Whitewater River National: Cheat Narrows
• Inventory of the National Whitewater River: Cheat Canyon
• Cheat Friends

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