LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Louisville Metro leaders provided an update on Thursday on the ongoing cleanup effort following the deadly UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, detailing progress in preventing oil contamination of local waterways.

Work crews have prevented 30,000 gallons of oil from getting into local waterways, according to Metro leaders. The cleanup work is running ahead of schedule but remains far from complete.

Brian Bingham, chief operations officer with the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD), said pure oil recovered from the UPS plane crash site will be disposed of out of state. Crews started loading some of that oil onto rail cars on Thursday.

“There will be five trucks a day that will take it to train cars for five days,” he explained. “So there’ll be 5,000 gallons in a

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