An employee of Professional Enterprises, of Karns City, checks the absorbent pads his crew placed on a boom across the Connoquenessing Creek in September after an oil spill. The boom, which was placed at the Eckstein Road canoe launch in Forward Township, was one of 10 the company placed on the creek to soak up the fluid spilled in Butler. Butler Eagle File Photo

The owner of the industrial site in Butler known as the former Armco Steel Plant 2 has not been cited for spilling oil into Sullivan Run, which flows to the Connoquenessing Creek.

The hydraulic oil entered the waterways on Sept. 8, when residual oil in pipes beneath oil tanks at the site were pumped out accidentally and ran into a nearby storm drain at a site owned by Capital Environmental Risk Transfer Alliance, or CERTA, of Cincinnati. The storm drain leads directly into Sullivan Run.

The former Plant 2 was used as the stainless processing facility by Armco Steel and later AK Steel, which is now Cleveland-Cliffs.

Armco bought Plant 2 in 1999, and it was closed by AK Steel in 2004.

It is the site of the former Bantam Car Company, where the original Jeep was conceived and designed.