The plant was comprised of a high and low pumping station, settling basins, engine room, boiler house, and a storage reservoir at Compton Hill.

The facilities included one and two story brick buildings and a 134-foot smokestack to support the coal burning plant. The plant had a decorative exterior and, above the main entrance, two sculped figures represented the merging of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

The Bissell Point Plant remained in operation until 1960, when the Metropolitan Sewer District purchased the property. Today, the MSD´s Wastewater Treatment facility is located where the plant once stood.