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Cheat Lake Bridge

Monongalia County, West Virginia
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Overview during repainting

Photo taken by James Baughn

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Facts 

Overview
Deck truss bridge over Cheat Lake on I-68
Location
Monongalia County, West Virginia
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1976
Design
Cantilevered Warren deck truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 363.9 ft.
Total length: 1,966.0 ft.
Deck width: 81.4 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.66967, -79.86280   (decimal degrees)
39°40'11" N, 79°51'46" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/597538/4391712 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Lake Lynn
Inventory number
BH 42968 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 12/2011)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 75.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
29,000

Categories 

Built 1976 (50)
Built during 1970s (509)
Deck truss (1,039)
Have street view (12,874)
Monongalia County, West Virginia (18)
Open (29,410)
 Span length 250-500 feet (896)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,274)
Truss (24,155)
Warren deck truss (372)
Warren truss (4,171)
West Virginia (1,051)

Update Log 

  • January 10, 2011: New photos from James Baughn
  • August 15, 2010: New Street View added by James Baughn
  • July 4, 2009: Added by James Baughn

Sources 

  • James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
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Cheat Lake Bridge
Posted December 8, 2013, by G Gamble (pug99us [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Friends and myself use to cross this bridge many times 65yrs ago,to fish in the lake. Lot's of good memory's here.

Cheat Lake Bridge
Posted January 14, 2011, by Robert Thompson

I suppose during the repainting, it could be classed as a "covered bridge"...

Yeah. Bad joke.