Louisville employees are continuing to clean waterways two weeks after the Nov. 4 UPS plane crash that left 14 dead and more than a dozen injured.

Roughly 95% of the oil from the crash, or around 880,000 gallons of oily liquids and other runoff, has been contained, said Tony Parrott, executive director of Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District. Following the crash, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said oil was pooled several feet deep in some places, and the spill reached more than four miles downstream along Pond Creek, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

MSD has three locations that catch runoff and are set up with skimmers, which are devices that separate oil and other contaminants from the water, Parrott said.

"We do know that the waterway

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