Armand Ruby - Vice President, Director Storm Water and Water Quality Group

Armand Ruby has over 30 years of experience as an environmental scientist, specializing in water quality issues. Armand has broad experience in designing and implementing monitoring programs, and has developed particular expertise in environmental data analysis. His work has covered surface and ground waters, wastewater and stormwater, as well as atmospheric deposition of pollutants. Armand previously worked as a contractor on USEPA nationwide Effluent Guidelines Development projects for several categorical industries. He also served as Statewide Coordinator for the Massachusetts Acid Rain Monitoring Project, for which he was awarded the President's Award from the University of Massachusetts. Upon arriving in California in 1990, Armand gained experience with the CEQA process through contributions to a number of EIR/EIS projects.

As a former Vice President with Larry Walker Associates in Davis, California, Armand worked extensively with municipal stormwater programs throughout California, and designed stormwater monitoring programs for several counties. He also successfully facilitated stakeholder working group efforts in several California watersheds. Since leaving LWA in 2004 Armand has continued to design and analyze surface water and sediment quality monitoring and assessment projects, including work on TRE's and bioassessment studies. His recent experience involves TMDL development and analysis, stormwater runoff monitoring, and drinking water source assessment. He recently completed a statewide compilation of monitoring studies showing the presence and effects of pyrethroid pesticides in urban surface waters in California, and serves as a consultant to the CASQA pesticides subcommittee.

Armand is the chair of the CASQA Monitoring and Science Subcommittee, serves on the Board of Directors of the Coastal Watershed Council, and is a member of the California Water Quality Monitoring Council, a statewide advisory mandated by SB 1070.

AREAS OF PROFICIENCY:

• Project Management
• Stormwater and Surface Water Quality Assessment/Monitoring
• Sediment Quality Assessment/Monitoring
• Watershed Analysis/Assessment/Management
• Environmental Data Analysis/Management
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Regulatory Compliance/Permitting Assistance

EDUCATION:

• M.S., Zoology (Ecology), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; 1986
• B.A., Biology (Ecology Concentration), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; 1977

AFFILIATIONS:

• California Storm Water Quality Association (CASQA), Member and Chair, Monitoring and Science Subcommittee
• California Water Quality Monitoring Council, Member
• Coastal watershed Council, Member, Board of Directors