Niagara Metals Seeks Approval for Feeder Yard

Niagara Metals, a scrap metal company that opened about three years ago in Niagara Falls, N.Y., is seeking to open a feeder yard in Royalton, N.Y.

The company is requesting a special use permit to open a new facility. To accomplish this, the company went before the city of Royalton’s Zoning Board of Appeals on Dec. 21 to build a scrap metal collection and storage facility at the old LaFarge quarry in the city. Due to opposition from a local auto wrecking firm the decision was made to reintroduce the request at the Zoning Board of Appeals’ next hearing in late January.

“I feel confident that we will be approved at the next go around,” said Todd Levin, president of Niagara. If the company does not get the approval at that site the company has other locations where it can build a feeder yard.
Levin noted that due to the nature of the feeder yard there will be no processing taking place on the seven-acre site where the company is looking to open the facility. The location would be used strictly from reloading material. Further, nonferrous metal will be collected under roof, while any ferrous collected for shipment to the company’s Niagara Falls scrap metal yard will be kept on a concrete pad.

The proposed facility is roughly 50 minutes east of the company’s main site, which is a 50-acre scrap metal facility.
If the company receives approval at the next hearing Levin says that it is possible the feeder yard could be operational by this spring.