LEWISTON – A plan to clean up a winding waterway in the center of Lewiston will get a public review June 24.

City officials and water engineers will present a management plan for the Hart Brook watershed, the culmination of a year’s worth of studies and meetings with area property owners, businesses and residents. The meeting is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. June 24 in room 108 of the the L/A College Campus, 51 Westminster St.

Hart Brook wanders from the Lewiston Industrial Park past Plourde Parkway to the Androscoggin River. The brook’s watershed includes some 2,000 acres, from Pleasant Street in the east, Randall Road in the north, Webster Road in the west and south past the Maine Turnpike.

That area includes some of Lewiston’s prime developable real estate, including the proposed Exit 80 retail development. The stream contained fish at one time, according to the report, but no longer does. Continued development along Hart in southern Lewiston means less runoff trickles through the ground to feed and filter the brook’s water table.

The stream is listed as an impaired waterway by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection and was given a below-B status rating. B is a middle-to-low rating on a scale that ranges from a high of AA to a low of C.

The plan outlines projects that could improve water quality, as well as possible funding sources and partnerships. Solutions in other states have included planting filtering plants along the stream and educational programs aimed at neighbors.