GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — About 60 people have volunteered to help plant Grand Island’s first public bioinfiltration garden on Saturday at the city library.

The garden will not only serve as a place for water to pool after heavy rains, but will also catch runoff pollutants from the library’s parking lot. It will use the garden’s plants to cleanse the pollutants from the water before it enters the city’s storm water system.

Grand Island received a Greener Nebraska Towns grant for nearly $43,000 to cover the majority of the garden’s cost.

Plants that will be included in the bioinfiltration garden include the blue flag iris, barren strawberry, hot lips turtlehead and Cheyenne sky switchgrass.