A watershed is all the land that surrounds and drains into a body of water. When rain falls, water that doesn’t soak into the ground “sheds” off the land and flows downhill. This is a map of the Lake Sunapee Watershed. The Lake Sunapee watershed includes all of the land surface that drains into Lake Sunapee. The watershed area is spread throughout six towns – Newbury, Springfield, Sunapee, New London, Sutton and Goshen. This area is approximately 47 square miles and includes 13 lakes and ponds with Lake Sunapee being the largest and Murray Pond the smallest. The Lake Sunapee Watershed is part of the larger Sugar River Watershed, which is part of the much larger Connecticut River watershed. Lake Sunapee waters eventually flow into Long Island Sound.