Chesapeake Healthy Watersheds Assessment 2.0
CompleteBuilt on the foundation of CHWA 1.0 and the Maryland Healthy Watersheds Assessment, this new application can be used to investigate watershed conditions and vulnerabilities within state-identified healthy watersheds and throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Description
In 2021, Chesapeake Bay Program partners funded the development of a Chesapeake Healthy Watersheds Assessment 2.0 (CHWA 2.0) application. CHWA 2.0 is built on the foundation of CHWA 1.0 and the Maryland Healthy Watersheds Assessment. CHWA 2.0 uses a random forest model with 60 unique metrics and the Chessie BIBI to predict health conditions for all 83,629 catchments (NHD+ v2.1) in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This new application can be used to investigate watershed conditions and vulnerabilities within state-identified healthy watersheds and throughout the Bay watershed. To learn more, open the CHWA 2.0 tool, download the report and informational fact sheet, or download the data.