The Thompson Creek Watershed Restoration has the following goals:

• Improve water quality in Thompson Creek and downstream receiving waters by: 
  • Improving stormwater management throughout the watershed.
  • Reducing erosion of the creek channel.
• Improve in-stream and riparian habitat by: 
  • Improving water quality.
  • Re-meandering the channel.
  • Stabilizing stream banks.
  • Constructing pools and riffles.
  • Reconstructing a floodplain bench.
• Reduce flooding and damage to infrastructure and public and private property by: 
  • Improving stormwater management throughout the watershed.
  • Reconstructing the creek and floodplain.
• Create public support for the project and its goals by: 
  • Increasing awareness of individual property contributions to non-point source pollution
  • Increasing understanding of linkages between non-point source pollution, water quality, and stream health.
  • Implementing cooperative projects to demonstrate cost-effective means of improving stream health.
• Implementation of this stream restoration project will create a highly-visible community asset that will improve quality of life for La Vista residents and serve as a replicable model for other urban streams in the region.