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f..._:. <br />NEW BRIGHTON <br />New Brighton is a rapidly developing inner ring suburb, <br />it was incorporated in ,1891 originally as a free standing <br />city. The City is located in the westerly portion of Ramsey <br />County and has gently rolling terrain with a good number of <br />ponds, lakes and streams. <br />The City is largely residential in nature with a developing <br />industrial/commercial base. Residents of the City tend to be <br />middle to upper middle class with fairly high expectations re- <br />garding c}ty services. <br />Soils in the northern portion of <br />nature, while soils in the southern <br />extensive peat deposits in low land <br />Located in the City is one major <br />ceives intensive recreational use. <br />are four smaller lakes with recreat: <br />the City are sandy in <br />portion a heavy clay with <br />areas. <br />lake, Long Lake, which re- <br />Also located in the City <br />zonal use being limted to <br />canoeing, etc. Long Lake is fed by Rice Creek and Ramsey County <br />Ditch #2, neither of which provide significant amounts of <br />water-based recreational activity. <br />