A collection = {GI, CZ, . . . , C,} of spanning subgraphs of K, is called an orthogonal double cover if (i) every edge of K , belongs to exactly two of the Ci's and (ii) any two distinct Ci's intersect in exactly one edge. Chung and West conjectured that there exists an orthogonal double cover of K,, for all n, in which each Ci has maximum degree 2, and proved this result for n in six of the residue classes modulo 12. In another context, Ganter and Gronau showed that for n = 1 mod 3, n # 10, there exists an orthogonal double cover of K,, in which each Ci consists of an isolated vertex and the vertex disjoint union of K3's (actually these orthogonal double covers result from the solution of the directed version of the problem, which reduces to the undirected case when the orientation of the arcs is ignored). Clearly the covers of Ganter and Gronau satisfy the Chung-West requirement. In this article, the configurations of Ganter and Gronau are generalized to include the cases n = 0,2 mod 3, and the results are used to provide a unified solution of the Chung-West problem. For n # 5 mod 6, all the spanning subgraphs in the collection are isomorphic to each other; however, this is not the case when n = 5 mod 6. In addition to solving the Chung-West problem, we also go on to show that for n = 2 mod 3 and n > 287, there exists an orthogonal double cover of K, in which each spanning subgraph Ci consists of the vertex-disjoint union of an isolated vertex, and quadrilateral, and ( n -5 ) / 3 triangles. Of the 96 cases with 2 5 n 5 287, 65 cases are resolved and 31 remain open.