FREDERICK, Md. (Map, News) - A Virginia energy company says it is moving the location of a planned natural-gas compressor station that ran into resistance in the Middletown area of Frederick County, Md.

The Frederick News-Post reports that Dominion Resources is now proposing the 11-acre project for a site in the unincorporated community of Jefferson, about five miles south of Middletown. The Richmond, Virginia, company has scheduled a meeting there on May 7.

In February, Middletown residents claimed the $55 million complex would ruin the landscape around the South Mountain Civil War Battlefield and endanger their water supply.

Representative Roscoe Bartlett asked federal regulators to review the project site.

Compressor stations help keep natural gas moving through underground pipelines.