A sign on Monday, Sept. 19, asks canoeists and kayakers to “please be patient” while an oil spill is cleaned up from the Connoquenesing Creek at the Renfrew Canoe and Kayak Launch in Renfrew. Multiple booms have been placed in the stream for clean up of the spill. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle

The company working to revamp the former Armco Plant 2 site has been issued a notice of violation by the state Department of Environmental Protection as a result of the Sept. 8 oil spill into the Connoquenessing Creek and Sullivan Run.

Sean Singer, water quality specialist supervisor for the DEP’s Clean Water Program sent the letter Friday notifying CERTA of the violation.

Singer said the hydraulic fluid was pumped at times onto wooden blocks from a 6-foot to 8-foot supply line. The line was broken during the removal of an old underground tank at the site.

The blocks, stacked on a cement foundation, were meant to soak up the oily substance.

“The department’s representative observed oil staining on the pavement from this same cement foundation area to a stormwater drain; observed hydraulic fluid within this same stormwater drain; and observed hydraulic fluid within a string of downstream stormwater drains from this same stormwater drain,” the letter states.

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