ROANOKE, Va., Jan. 21, 2015 – Appalachian Power will open its Smith Mountain Project Shoreline Management customer service facility at a new Moneta, Va. location effective Jan. 27.

Beginning that day, an Appalachian representative will be available every Tuesday and Friday from 1:00 until 4:30 p.m. at the Smith Mountain Lake Association (SMLA) office. The office is located on the lower level of the Lakewood Professional Center, Suite 2100, 400 Scruggs Rd. (Rt. 616), Moneta.

Visitors will not need an appointment to ask general questions about shoreline management at Smith Mountain and Leesville lakes. Property owners can still call for appointments at (540) 985-2579 to meet representatives in the company’s Roanoke office regarding in-depth topics such as dock construction applications.

Visit the company’s website at www.SmithMtn.com for more information and frequently-asked questions about the Shoreline Management Plan.

Smith Mountain Project is a 636-megawatt pumped storage hydroelectric facility that utilizes an upper reservoir (Smith Mountain Lake) and a lower reservoir (Leesville Lake).  Water stored in Smith Mountain Lake first passes through turbine-generators in the powerhouse to produce electricity and is discharged into Leesville Lake. 

Appalachian Power has 1 million customers in Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee (as AEP Appalachian Power). It is a unit of American Electric Power (AEP), one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, which delivers electricity to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. AEP ranks among the nation’s largest generators of electricity, owning nearly 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S.

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