Maintain Healthy Watersheds Goal Implementation Team (GIT 4) Projects

Built 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.

The Maryland Healthy Watershed Assessment establishes a framework of watershed health and vulnerability metrics for assessing Maryland waters and watersheds.

The Chesapeake Healthy Watersheds Assessment helps partners identify "signals of change" in vulnerable or resilient healthy waters and watersheds.

The Healthy Watersheds Outcome in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement states that 100% of these waters and watersheds will remain healthy.

This toolkit provides local governments in the Chesapeake Bay watershed with information about land-use policy tools they can use to slow the conversion of farmland, forestland and wetlands.

This project researched and piloted alternative methods for forest and agricultural land conservation.

This assessment delineated healthy watersheds in the Potomac watershed portion of West Virginia.

This project identifies potential approaches for evaluating policy options, incentives and planning tools that could help Chesapeake Bay states continually improve their capacity to reduce the rate of conversion of agricultural lands, forests and wetlands as well as the rate of changing natural landscapes to those that are paved over, hardscaped or otherwise impervious.

This pilot project examined the use of watershed protection tools among local government staff.

This study characterized the nature and significance of flow conditions in the Susquehanna River basin.