Maintain Healthy Watersheds Goal Implementation Team (GIT 4) - All Meetings
2025
- Healthy Watersheds Outcome: 100 percent of state-identified currently healthy waters and watersheds remain healthy. (GIT 4)
- Land Use Methods and Metrics Development Outcome: Continually improve the knowledge of land conversion and the associated impacts throughout the watershed. By 2016, develop a Chesapeake Bay watershed-wide methodology and local level metrics for characterizing the rate of farmland, forest and wetland conversion, measuring the extent and rate of change in impervious surface coverage and quantifying the potential impacts of land conversion to water quality, healthy watersheds and communities. Launch a public awareness campaign to share this information with citizens, local governments, elected officials and stakeholders. (GIT 4)
- Land Use Options Evaluation Outcome: By the end of 2017, with the direct involvement of local governments or their representatives, evaluate policy options, incentives and planning tools that could assist them in continually improving their capacity to reduce the rate of conversion of agricultural lands, forests and wetlands as well as the rate of changing landscapes from more natural lands that soak up pollutants to those that are paved over, hardscaped or otherwise impervious. Strategies should be developed for supporting local governments’ and others’ efforts in reducing these rates by 2025 and beyond. (GIT 4)
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting - December 2025
This is the bimonthly meeting of the HWGIT.
Please note: This meeting will likely be rescheduled for the annual joint December meeting between the Forestry Workgroup, Land Use Workgroup, and Healthy Watersheds Goal Implementation Team. More details will be announced in Fall 2025. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Marilyn Yang at myang@chesapeakebay.net.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting - October 2025
This is the bimonthly meeting of the HWGIT.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting - September 2025
This is the bimonthly meeting of the Maintain Healthy Watersheds Goal Implementation Team.
Please note: This meeting was originally scheduled for August 11th, but has been rescheduled to September 8th to align with the end of the Beyond 2025 public comment period from July 1st - September 1st, 2025.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting - June 2025
This is the bimonthly meeting of the Maintain Healthy Watersheds Goal Implementation Team.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting - April 2025
This is the bimonthly meeting of the Maintain Healthy Watersheds Goal Implementation Team.
This meeting will focus on discussing the future of the HWGIT, our connections with relevant workgroups, and our associated outcomes—specifically outlining possible metrics and target outcome language.
Given the natural overlap of these discussions with various groups, we encourage members from other groups to attend, particularly those from, but not limited to, the following: Land Use Workgroup, Protected Lands Workgroup, Local Leadership Workgroup, Stream Health Workgroup, Forestry Workgroup, and the Local Government Advisory Committee.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting - February 2025
This is the bimonthly meeting of the HWGIT. Please note: This meeting has been rescheduled from February 10 to February 3 due to scheduling conflicts.
Healthy Watersheds GIT (HWGIT) & Land Use Workgroup (LUWG) Beyond 2025 "Big Questions" Discussion
This time will be used for the HWGIT and LUWG to discuss the Outcome Assessment ("Big Questions") assignment put forward by the Management Board. This meeting will include discussions on the following outcomes:
Healthy Watersheds Goal:
Land Conservation Goal:
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Healthy Watersheds GIT & Forestry Workgroup Staffer, Marilyn Yang (myang@chesapeakebay.net) or the Land Use Workgroup Staffer, Caroline Kleis (Kleis.Caroline@epa.gov).
2024
Forestry/Land Use Workgroup and Healthy Watersheds GIT Joint Meeting - December 2024
This is a joint meeting with the Healthy Watersheds Goal Team, the Forestry Workgroup, and the Land Use Workgroup.
Please note, this meeting will take the place of the regularly scheduled bi-monthly Healthy Watersheds Goal Team meeting and monthly Forestry Workgroup meeting for December, 2024.
This meeting will take place in a hybrid format with a virtual and in-person option.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Healthy Watersheds GIT & Forestry Workgroup Staffer, Marilyn Yang (myang@chesapeakebay.net) or the Land Use Workgroup Staffer, Caroline Kleis (Kleis.Caroline@epa.gov).
Please see below for hybrid meeting information:
Meeting Link: Click to Join the Meeting
Meeting ID: 239 624 098 050
Passcode: JNCfKG
Join by Phone: +1 469-208-1525
Phone Conference ID: 679 388 109#
Canceled: Climate Resiliency/Stream Health Workgroup and Healthy Watersheds GIT Joint Meeting - November 2024
This meeting is being postponed until the early 2025. This is a joint meeting with the Climate Resiliency Workgroup, the Stream Health Workgroup, and the Healthy Watersheds Goal Team.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Climate Resiliency Workgroup Staffer, Jamileh Soueidan (jamileh.soueidan@noaa.gov), the Healthy Watersheds Goal Team Staffer, Marilyn Yang (myang@chesapeakebay.net), or the Stream Health Workgroup Staffer, Nick Staten (staten.nick@epa.gov).
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT and Protected Lands Workgroup Meeting - October 2024
This is a joint meeting with the Healthy Watersheds Goal Team (HWGIT) and the Protected Lands Workgroup.
Please note, this October HWGIT meeting has been rescheduled to October 21st due to the holiday falling on the regularly scheduled HWGIT bimonthly meeting time on October 14th.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Healthy Watersheds Goal Team Staffer, Marilyn Yang (myang@chesapeakebay.net) or the Protected Lands Workgroup Staffer, Daniel Koval (kovald@chesapeake.org).
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting- August 2024
This is the bimonthly meeting of the HWGIT.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting- June 2024
This is the bimonthly meeting of the HWGIT
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting- April 2024
This is the bimonthly meeting of the HWGIT.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting - February 2024
This is a bimonthly meeting of the Maintain Healthy Watersheds Goal Implementation Team.
2023
CANCELED: Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting - December 2023
This meeting has been canceled. The Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT will meet with jurisdictional representatives in December.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, October 2023
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, August 2023
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, June 2023
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, April 2023
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, February 2023
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
2022
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, December 12, 2022
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, October 17, 2022
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, August 8, 2022
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, June 13, 2022
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, April 11, 2022
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, February 14, 2022
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
2021
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, December 13, 2021
Maintain Healthy Watersheds Goal Implementation Team (HWGIT) December meeting. Contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with any questions.
Maintain Healthy Watersheds GIT Meeting, October 12, 2021
October Meeting of the HWGIT