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PPL Montana will close River Drive North near its Black Eagle Dam beginning Thursday (9/5) to allow crews to safely repair a retaining wall adjacent to the road.

The company expects to keep the road closed for about three weeks. River Drive North provides access to Black Eagle Memorial Island. Visitors will still be able to access the island from the River’s Edge Trail.

PPL Montana’s Black Eagle Dam is located at Black Eagle Falls on the Missouri River, about two miles downstream from Great Falls, Mont.

PPL Montana provides safe, reliable energy from coal-fired power plants at Colstrip and Billings, as well as 11 hydroelectric plants along West Rosebud Creek and the Missouri, Madison, Clark Fork and Flathead rivers. It has a combined generating capacity of more than 1,200 megawatts and has offices in Billings, Butte and Helena. PPL Montana and its 500 employees are dedicated to Montana and its communities, supporting educational, environmental and economic development programs across the state. PPL EnergyPlus operates a trading floor in Butte that markets and sells power for PPL Montana in wholesale and retail energy markets throughout the western United States. PPL Montana and PPL EnergyPlus are subsidiaries of PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL). More information about PPL Montana is available at www.pplmontana.com.