LIVERMORE – The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has approved re-opening the town’s transfer station on Tuesday, select board administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said Monday.

Only household trash and recyclables will be accepted. No mercury-containing products will be accepted for the time being.

The station was temporarily closed Friday until soils analysis for possible contaminants was done after a fire destroyed a combined office and garage building, and a building that contained universal waste.

Only minimal trace levels of mercury were found in soil samples collected, Schaub said. A report detailing contaminant levels was received Monday and the town was told there was nothing to worry about, he said.

Town officials and the DEP closed the station on Friday as a precaution. Firefighters had dug a small dike around a metal building that contained universal waste that was transferred to it for removal from the wooden building that was destroyed.

Residents are asked not to bring fluorescent bulbs, ballasts, computer monitors, mercury thermometers, televisions or other waste containing mercury to the station until further notice.

Schaub said they will work their way up to accepting those items in a few weeks.

He is waiting to hear what insurance will cover before a decision is made on what will be rebuilt at the site, he said. The town has a $1,000 deductible, he said.