InfrastructureUSA.org, an online community focused on generating a dynamic national conversation about America’s deteriorating civil infrastructure has published Levees.org’s new data and research on the benefits of levees.

Levees.org recently obtained new data from FEMA confirming that more than half the American population lives in counties protected by levees. Levees.org commissioned a researcher (Ezra Boyd) who found that counties with levees had populations that are wealthier and had less unemployment.

You can see the published article here.