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Image by Chelsea Scott<\/span><\/p>\n Saturday, October 5, Penn State students and volunteers helped restore two green stormwater infrastructure projects \u2013 a rain garden and a stormwater bumpout– on Lancaster Avenue. \u201cThe two sites we worked on weren\u2019t functioning properly. So we fixed them, prettied them up, mulched, planted \u2014 the whole shebang,\u201d said Tommy McCann, an urban agriculture coordinator and horticultural educator at Penn State.<\/p>\n The idea for the volunteer day began when organizers from Penn State met with the Philadelphia Water Department to discuss possible partnerships and to tour stormwater infrastructure sites that PWD had plans to improve, including the rain garden and bumpout on Lancaster Ave. This cleanup day is part of a bigger initiative by Penn State Public Media to produce a documentary that tells the story of how cities acrossthe United States are learning to manage stormwater with green infrastructure. PennState plans to release the film, Water Blues Green Solutions<\/a>, in late 2013.<\/p>\n