The other two are not related to coal mining. A notice on the creation of a draft total maximum daily load was posted to the "Pennsylvania Bulletin" on January 8, 2005. A public meeting discussing the total maximum daily load was held on January 25, 2005 in Dickson City. In 2014, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection was scheduled to receive more than $1,000,000 to eliminate the mine fire in the creek's vicinity. Powderly Creek is designated as a Coldwater Fishery and a Migratory Fishery. In its upper reaches, the channel of Powderly Creek is lined with knotweed. Further downstream, below the Langcliff Colliery reach, there is some semblance of native habitat and native and successional vegetation occur in the area. The creek has a relatively high possible tree canopy of greater than 50 percent.