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DISTRIBUTION OF MERCURY IN SEDIMENT OF THE SNOW CREEK WATERSHED, CALHOUN COUNTY, ALABAMA, David Steffy, Jeremy Franklin, Joshua Lang, Rachael McCoy, Charity Novick, Charles Stinson, and Alfred Nichols. Department of Physical and Earth Sciences, Jacksonville State University, 700 Pelham Rd. N, Jacksonville, AL 36265 An investigation of mercury contamination of sediment has revealed levels 100's times higher than background in some urbanized areas of the Snow Creek Watershed. Background levels were estimated to be 0.060 mg/Kg. Elevated levels of mercury as high as 6.520 mg/Kg were found in the City of Oxford's recreational park, which lies adjacent to Snow Creek. Gradual erosion of contaminated sediment from the park was deposited in Snow Creek. Erosion by Snow Creek has redistributed the contaminated sediment downstream into its receiving stream, Choccolocco Creek and its associated floodplain.