A train derailment last Saturday dumped coal and diesel fuel into wetlands near the Chickahimony River in Virginia, and nearby residents and environmentalists worry that the contaminants could flow into the waterway.

The CSX train travelling from Hinton, West Virginia, to Newport, Virginia, derailed about 30 minutes past Richmond in New Kent County, sending 53 cars full of coal and two engines with diesel fuel to within about 400 feet of the river, one of several tributaries feeding into the James River that flows into the Chesapeake Bay.

“There were no injuries as a result of the incident and no hazardous materials being transported by the cars involved and no danger to the surrounding community,” the company said in a statement on Monday.

But the 4,000 gallons of diesel fuel and about

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