Arnel Fausto Email & Phone Number

Kitchener, Canada Area

Mr. Fausto is a Senior Ecologist with Matrix Solutions Inc. responsible for providing senior oversight and technical expertise on matters pertaining to environmental planning and assessment. In his current capacity, Mr. Fausto’s professional expertise includes management, strategic planning, business development, and senior technical input on large multi-year projects with multi-disciplinary teams. In a senior capacity, he specialises in the assessment of potential ecological impacts to aquatic and terrestrial habitats resulting from past and present municipal wastewater discharges, groundwater withdrawals and discharges, landfills, mining, energy and industrial facilities. In his role as a Project Manager, Mr. Fausto has successfully led large scale, multi-year monitoring projects within these areas of discipline, and has played a key role in the design, approval, and the development of monitoring protocols that are widely used within Ontario. Mr. Fausto has provided expert peer reviews/opinions on matters concerning wind energy, fish habitat impacts, wetlands, water quality, and mining for provincial government agencies, municipal governments, conservation authority, First Nations, mining companies, and for the Nunavut Water Board.

Toronto, Canada Area

In his role as the Environmental Director, Mr. Fausto is a Key Individual assigned to lead and direct all aspects of Project Co. environmental and sustainability programs for the Finch West Light Rail Transit (LRT) Project on behalf of the Mosaic Transit Group. Mosaic Transit Group (Mosaic) has been awarded a contract valued at $2.5 billion by Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario to design, build, finance and maintain the Finch West LRT, an 11-kilometre LRT that will run in a semi-exclusive lane along Finch Avenue. This consists of a below-grade terminal stop at Humber College, 16 surface stops, as well as an underground interchange station at Keele Street that connects with the new Finch West Subway Station on the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. The project also includes a maintenance and storage facility for the light rail vehicles and other required components, such as trackworks, signaling, communications, and public infrastructure. The Finch West LRT is fully integrated with the City of Toronto’s transit works and is part of the Ontario Government’s commitment to expand transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

Cambridge, Ontario

Mr. Fausto was the VP and Director in charge of the Cambridge Office in Ontario and his professional consulting practice included management, strategic planning, business development, and senior technical input on large multi-year projects with multi-disciplinary teams. He has been a consultant for many Class Environmental Assessments, Watershed Studies, Lake and Stream Corridor Remediation and Restoration Projects, Biodiversity Studies, Environmental Impact Assessments, Fisheries Studies, Pipeline Corridor Assessments, and has also served as a Planner and Construction Inspector for numerous municipal infrastructure projects. He has performed numerous aquatic and terrestrial investigations at large industrial facilities, power utilities, water intake plants, and nuclear generating stations affected by various degrees and types of pollution, and have been qualified as an Expert Witness in Ontario Provincial Court and at the Ontario Municipal Board. Mr. Fausto provided senior technical advisory services to a wide range of municipal projects in the areas of strategic planning, ecological planning, mitigation, permitting, and monitoring to large infrastructure and linear corridor studies undertaken by engineering firms throughout the Great Lakes Region and Greater Toronto Area.

Responsible for the management of the LGL Burlington Office, specializing in the assessment of potential ecological impacts to aquatic and terrestrial habitats resulting from industrial,municipal and land development activities. Mr. Fausto was a Senior Advisor to many of the large engineering firms undertaking water quality, water supply, wastewater infrastructure, and effluent plume studies throughout the Great Lakes Region and Greater Toronto Area. Selected Presentations-With L.K Renzetti, D.T Summach and J.R. Bicudo.2011. Long Term Monitoring of Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrades through the Surface Water Quality Monitoring Program on the Grand, Speed, and Nith Rivers. WEAO Technical Conference, Toronto, Ontario.-With D.T Summach, D. Robichaud, and J. R. Bicudo. 2013 Long Term Monitoring of Water Quality Upstream and Downstream of Wastewater Treatment Plants in the Region of Waterloo: Water Quality Observations in the Grand River Watershed during Summer Low Flow Events. Canadian Wastewater Management Conference and Central Canadian Symposium on Water Quality Research, Hamilton, Ontario.-With J. Bicudo et al, 2013 Planning Phosphorus Removal Upgrades through Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling. WEF/IWA Nutrient Removal and Recovery. Proceedings of the Water and Environment Federation- With D.T Summach, J. Bicudo, P. Law, and T. Brown. 2015. Impacts of Wastewater Treatment Upgrades at the Kitchener Wastewater Treatment Plant on the Water Quality of the Grand River. WEAO Technical Conference, Toronto Ontario 2015

Burlington, Ontario

Managed a variety of projects ranging from small private developments to larger scale municipal infrastructure projects. Conducted literature reviews and field investigations on contaminated sites. While at CH2M Hill, he was the principal investigator of impacts to the aquatic environment at the Deloro Mine Site, Deloro, Ontario where his responsibilities included collection of fisheries baseline data, preparing expert legal testimony, predicting ecological impacts through river diversion and dam removal scenarios for the provincial government. He was also involved in the Reclamation plans for Voisey’s Bay Nickel Mine Project and Argentia Due Diligence Project, and provided Critical Review of the effluent and aquatic monitoring study design for the Doris North Gold Mine Project. Mr. Fausto was also a key member of an ecological project team undertaking extensive natural heritage studies of the AECL Chalk River laboratories and a 640 km natural gas pipeline in Northern Ohio and Pennsylvania.

M.Sc, Biology

Activities and Societies: Wilfrid Laurier University 1983-1987Watershed Ecosystems Graduate Program

Honours Bachelor Of Science, Environmental Biology

1987 Honours Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.),