The Santa Maria Utilities Department is offering free landscape burlaps and sprinklers to residents during April as a way to encourage homeowners to go green this spring by pulling weeds and collecting clippings, adjusting their irrigation timers, and regularly checking sprinklers and outdoor faucets for leaks.

Residents can receive one 7-foot-by-7-foot landscape burlap and three MPR1000 Rotator sprinklers with anti-leak sprinkler bodies. Requests are limited to one promotional package per household while supplies last.

The landscape burlap can be used to gather yard clippings, branches, leaves, and other green waste materials in the yard or garden, and easily transport them to the green/organics container, compost pile, or bin.

Residents can easily retrofit existing irrigation by transitioning to MPR1000 Rotators sprinklers to maximize water efficiency, the city said. An instruction guide and adjustment tool are included with the sprinklers.

Santa Maria residents must call the Utilities Department to reserve their promotion in advance at 805-925-0951 ext. 7270, Monday-Friday, and schedule an appointment for pickup.