The City of Rogers has owned and operated the wastewater treatment plant in it's current location since 1960.  Since this original simple stabilization pond style of treatment plant was constructed, several expansions have been performed to convert the treatment process to a fully mechanical modern wastewater facility.  The treatment plant was last expanded in 1996 to a capacity of 1.602 million gallons per day of capacity.  The current 2018 wastewater flow treated at the City's wastewater treatment plant is an average of just under a million gallons of daily flow.  

To coincide with the Met Council Comp Plan process, the City of Rogers completes a Comprehensive Sewer Plan (CSP) every 10 years at a minimum. The latest update of the Rogers CSP was approved by Met Council Environmental Services (MCES) in 2016.  With this approved CSP, the City of Rogers stated that the city's current wastewater plant was to be phased out over the next ten years, only to be replaced by the development of a MCES owned and operated regional facility on the Crow River.  This plan for the regional plant is documented in the Met Council  approved 2040 Thrive MSP - Water Resource Policy Plan and its associated long range Capital improvement plan.

To this end, MCES has recently acquired the land necessary construct such a facility along the Crow River in western extremity of the City.  The City Council, in attempt to support and facilitate this long range regional assets, has provided a Resolution of support to MCES and Three Rivers Park District to perform a land exchange to help develop the future Regional Plant.

MCES completed the installation of the Elm Creek Interceptor (ECI) in the Spring of 2018. This connection of the ECI has allowed for the discharge of sanitary sewer of new homes and businesses to MCES for the first time in the City's history. The ECI connection point in Rogers serves three communities; Rogers, Dayton, and Corcoran. In the future the three community's sewer flows will exceed the capacity of the existing ECI and for that reason MECS has proposed a new wastewater treatment plant along the Crow River to handle the three community's future sewer flows. City of Rogers staff and MCES staff have been working together on a intergovernmental agreement for the take over of the Rogers Wastewater Treatment Plant which is attached for the Council's discussion and review.