Where does the water from the Connecticut River come from?

The Connecticut River has swelled with water. 22News explains where all this water is coming from.

With all this talk of potential flooding over parts of the Connecticut River this weekend and early next week, it’s useful to know more about the river.

The Connecticut River is more than 400 miles long and actually begins in a very tiny lake known as Fourth Connecticut Lake in Pittsburg, New Hampshire just south of the Canadian Border. Then it trickles into the Third, Second and First Connecticut Lakes still in northern New Hampshire before finally making its way to where northern Vermont and New Hampshire meet. The Connecticut River actually forms the state line between Vermont and New Hampshire and continues south between those two states while collecting runoff and snow melt in those areas.

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As we know, the Connecticut River runs down the Pioneer Valley with a number of other rivers in western Massachusetts bringing additional water to it. Then, of course, it heads through Connecticut finally exiting into the Long Island Sound between Old Lyme and Old Saybrook.

We will continue to track the river as it rises this weekend right here on 22News.