Environment

Seven sites, including Cold Spring Harbor and parts of Moriches Bay, were given poor ratings due to low dissolved oxygen and water clarity and a harmful algal bloom.

Amazon may build a warehouse on the site, but no development can happen without cleaning up the copper, cyanide and other contaminants in the soil, the DEC says.

The ruling bars the Noyac mine from processing brush, leaves, trees or construction debris at the site.