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playaor pan or flat or dry lakeFlat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. The water that periodically covers the playa slowly filters into the groundwater system or evaporates into the atmosphere, causing the deposition of salt, sand, and mud along the bottom and around the edges of the depression. playa [′plī·ə] (geology) A low, essentially flat part of a basin or other undrained area in an arid region. A small, generally sandy land area at the mouth of a stream or along the shore of a bay. A flat, alluvial coastland, as distinguished from a beach. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| When Playa Vista developer Playa Capital LLC transferred 623 acres of wetlands near Ballona Creek to the state's Trust for Public Land in December for $139 million, nearly every environmental group opposing the project saw the deal as a victory of sorts. s, ePaseo intranet system, customized for Playa Vista, will give residents and businesses in the development a private online portal to share information. After a coalition of 90 organizations joined to organize pickets, hunger strikes, boycotts, letter-writing campaigns, Town Hall meetings and five lawsuits, Dream Works announced that it would pull out of Playa Vista, citing "financial difficulties. |
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