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GISP Certified · 15+ Years Enterprise GIS

Location intelligence for healthcare, energy, water & civil infrastructure decisions.

ProXimity Geospatial turns production data, infrastructure networks, aquifers, parcels, human demographics and power grids into clear maps and defensible recommendations, so your team can see where to invest, where to build, deploy or focus and where not to.

15+Years Experience
20+Network Designs
100+Projects Supported
95%Client Satisfaction
Energy & Water

Permian Infrastructure Intelligence

Produced water, SWD capacity, aquifers and midstream gaps.

Land & Development

Site Selection Risk Screening

Constraints, assemblability and entitlement risk for large sites.

Broadband

BEAD & Middle-Mile Programs

FCC BDC analytics, eligibility viewers and statewide network maps.

Experiences

Interactive Maps & Storytelling

Web maps, dashboards and event course maps people actually use.

Services

GIS consulting built around the decision

Every engagement starts with the question your leadership, investors or regulators need answered, and ends with maps and recommendations that answer it.

Energy & Water Infrastructure Intelligence

Basin-scale analysis that shows where production growth is outrunning water handling, pipelines and power, and where that creates investable opportunity.

  • Produced water, SWD & midstream gap analysis
  • Aquifer, TDS & brackish water source screening
  • Grid readiness & substation proximity scoring
  • Data center water & power demand mapping

Site Selection & Entitlement Risk

We remove what can't be built first, then rank what's left by cost, assemblability and political risk, so capital lands where projects can survive.

  • Environmental & regulatory exclusion mapping
  • Parcel assemblability & utility access modeling
  • Zoning, annexation & opposition risk overlays
  • Landowner & water-well outreach shortlists

Data Analytics & Visualization

Complex spatial datasets turned into clear visual stories, automated where it saves you money and documented so your team can maintain it.

  • Python / ArcPy / GeoPandas automation
  • PostGIS & enterprise geodatabase design
  • Composite scoring & multi-criteria models
  • Investor- and board-ready reports

Broadband & Grant Program GIS

From FCC BDC data products to public eligibility viewers, built for state broadband offices, ISPs and network planners.

  • BEAD / CPF eligibility & challenge support
  • Middle-mile route & network mapping
  • Broadband scoring & decision support
  • Secure AGOL / Enterprise hosting

Cartographic Experiences & Web Maps

Maps, StoryMaps and dashboards that make your data easy to understand and act on, whether they're shared publicly or kept internal.

  • ArcGIS JS API & Experience Builder apps
  • StoryMaps & immersive web experiences
  • Event & race course maps
  • Print cartography & infographics

GIS Strategy & Program Management

Program design and team leadership from someone who has run a 15-person GIS group: governance, QA/QC and delivery that scales.

  • Data governance & QA/QC frameworks
  • Workflow optimization & SOPs
  • Scope of work & LOE estimation
  • AGILE project delivery
Featured Work · 2026

Permian Basin Infrastructure Intelligence

For a produced-water midstream operator planning expansion, we mapped oil, gas and water production against pipelines, disposal wells, aquifers and the power grid. The goal was to find where infrastructure gaps meet sustained production, because that's where water treatment, reuse and recycling investment pays off.

31MM+bbl/day of produced water modeled across TX & NM
<20%of counties isolated as holding most of the investable opportunity
28,140 MWdata center power queue mapped against water supply
4-factorgrid readiness score ranking priority counties for siting
Choropleth map of Permian Basin water production by county, normalized by area, with saltwater disposal wells
Composite opportunity map. High-scoring regions are where production intensity, water challenges and infrastructure gaps overlap. Those are the best near-term places to put infrastructure investment.
Map of recently approved oil and gas drilling permits over total produced water by county
The "water pulse." Newly approved permits show where large volumes of produced water will need a solution soon, not years from now.
Map of oil production by county with permitting activity and horizontal wellbores
Oil production trends. Production is concentrated in a few counties. The client's expansion territory covers 8 of the top 10 producers.
Map of natural gas production with pipelines, compressor facilities and transmission lines
Gas, pipelines & HV power. Pipeline density varies widely across the basin. Compressor and processing sites inside the gaps are good candidates for portable treatment units.
Major and minor aquifers of the Permian Basin shown as overlapping colored extents
Aquifer availability. Stacked aquifers with different TDS ranges point to brackish sources that can be blended with treated produced water for reuse.
Map of data center capacity, power plants and transmission lines across the Permian region
Energy + compute + water. Pairing wastewater assets with power-queue nodes turns a disposal liability into a cooling-water asset for data centers.

Define the playing field

Production intensity mapped at county level for oil, gas and water.

Compile infrastructure

Pipelines, SWDs, processing facilities, substations and transmission lines.

Apply constraints

Seismic response areas, disposal saturation, water stress and access gaps.

Isolate opportunity

A scored model ranks the zones where capital can deploy with acceptable risk.

Maps shown are excerpts from client deliverables, shared with client identifiers removed. Analysis is directional and investor-grade; capital decisions require site-level due diligence.

Case Studies

From basin scale to the parcel

Recent engagements that moved clients from "where could we go?" to "here's where we start, and who we call first."

Map of water wells labelled by TDS across Edwards-Trinity and Pecos Valley aquifers within a 25-mile radiusTop water plays
Map of deep aquifer extents including Capitan Reef with water quality wellsDeep aquifers
Water Supply · Pecos County, TX · Oct 2026

Treatable Brackish Water Play: Coyanosa

We narrowed the basin-wide view down to a single ranch. Every water well within 25 miles was screened by aquifer, depth, yield and total dissolved solids (TDS) to find brackish sources that are treatable and plentiful enough to develop.

The result is a planning-grade, actionable outreach plan: the landowners whose parcels have qualifying wells, ranked by distance and water quality, plus nearby SWD and midstream competition.

524Water wells screened by TDS
5Aquifer units evaluated
300+ gpmYields in top play
TWDB / BRACSWell yield analysisParcel ownershipSWD mapping
County map of development constraints including wetlands, flood hazard and protected landsExclusion areas
Parcel assemblability heat map with substations and transmission linesAssemblability
Map of township entitlement types, opposition risk and annexation areasEntitlement risk
Site Selection · Delaware County, OH · 2026

"Kill Plane" Site Screening for Large-Acreage Development

No perfect sites exist, so we started by removing what can't be built. Environmental barriers, regulatory dead zones and areas without utilities came out first. Then parcel assemblability, substation access and township entitlement risk were layered in to separate structural deal-breakers from problems that can be solved.

The client got a ranked target set covering less than 5% of the county's acreage, with realistic budgets for infrastructure investment, entitlement timelines and the number of parcels each site needs.

230K+Acres of barriers removed
<5%Acreage in target set
31Recent annexations mapped
Multi-criteria analysisParcel assemblyPower & water accessZoning & annexation
Track Record

Statewide programs, public maps & live events

Earlier work for state broadband offices and network builders, plus interactive maps built for the public.

Topographic route map of California middle-mile broadband construction segmentsMiddle Mile

California Middle Mile Broadband Network

As Senior GIS Engineer & Program Manager, produced maps and configured service layers for the statewide MMBN interactive map, working with the California Department of Technology.

StatewideInteractive network map
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Oregon broadband service availability and BEAD grant eligibility web mapBEAD / CPF

Oregon Broadband Office Web Map

Data hosting, security and visualization design for a public dashboard supporting BEAD and CPF funding programs, built in ArcGIS Experience Builder with secured layers.

PublicEligibility viewer
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Map of ISP count by census block with underserved locations for a broadband scoring toolDecision Support

Broadband Score: Decision Support

Designed a scoring metric on aggregated FCC BDC data that goes beyond grant eligibility, weighting competition, scale of opportunity and growth potential.

FCC BDCLocation-level scoring
Alabama County Profiles web app showing Baldwin County unserved areas and broadband grantsState Broadband Office

Alabama Broadband Maps & County Profiles

Supported ADECA's public broadband speed maps and county profile app, which pair unserved and underserved counts with grant awards for every county.

PublicSpeed maps & profiles
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Event Mapping
Trail One · Frederick WatershedShed Enduro 2026
Pro/OpenExpertSportSprint

Shed Enduro 2026: Course Maps

Four interactive course maps for the Shed Enduro mountain bike race at the Frederick Watershed, with neon-styled segment overlays, stage legends and popups embedded on the race website.

4Interactive race maps
ArcGIS JS APIGeoJSONNetlify
Power & Siting
Lea, NM82
Reeves, TX68
Culberson, TX65
Eddy, NM61
Loving, TX42

Grid Readiness Scoring

Priority counties scored on proximity to opportunity, capacity headroom, transmission voltage tier and existing industrial load (weighted 30/35/20/15). Each was then staged against the 345 kV and 765 kV buildout timelines.

5Counties scored & staged
Visual Storytelling

Complex systems, explained at a glance

Alongside the maps, we build custom infographics that show executives, investors and communities how the whole system fits together, from source to disposal and from wastewater to cooling loop.

Isometric infographic of the produced water lifecycle from acquisition to disposal

Produced Water Lifecycle

One view of the full produced-water value chain, used to show clients exactly where in the chain their infrastructure creates value.

Infographic showing treated produced water supplying data center liquid cooling

Produced Water → Data Center Synergy

How treated produced water could become a reliable cooling-water supply for hyperscale data centers. This is the case behind the next phase of Permian investment.

Expertise

Deep capabilities across the GIS stack

15+ years of hands-on work in enterprise and open-source GIS, from data engineering to the final map.

01Technical Skills

  • ArcGIS Pro / Enterprise / Online
  • QGIS, PostGIS & open-source GIS
  • Python (ArcPy, GeoPandas, Pandas)
  • ArcGIS JS API & Experience Builder
  • SQL & enterprise geodatabases
  • Network Analyst & Utility Network
  • Remote sensing & LiDAR
  • REST API & data integration

02Industry Expertise

  • Oil, gas & produced water midstream
  • Groundwater & water resources
  • Power, transmission & data centers
  • Broadband / telecom infrastructure
  • Federal grant compliance (BEAD, RDOF, CPF)
  • Real estate & land development
  • Environmental site assessment
  • Municipal & regulatory reporting

03Leadership & Strategy

  • GIS program development
  • Multi-team management (15+ people)
  • Investor-grade analysis & briefings
  • Technical report writing
  • Data governance framework design
  • QA/QC process implementation
  • Scope of work & LOE estimation
  • AGILE project management
About

Eben Kuchman, GISP

Founder & Principal Geospatial Consultant

ProXimity Geospatial is a focused GIS consultancy based in Middletown, Maryland. When you hire us, you work directly with the principal, someone who has led enterprise GIS programs and still builds the analysis himself.

We keep scopes conservative and findings honest: what the data supports, what it doesn't, and what needs field verification before capital moves.

GISPCertified GIS Professional
M.S.Management of GIS, Salisbury University
B.S.Land Use & Environmental Planning, Salisbury University
Career

Built in the field, proven at scale

  1. 2026 →

    ProXimity Geospatial LLC: Founder

    Permian Basin infrastructure intelligence, groundwater source screening, large-site selection risk and interactive event mapping.

  2. 2021 – 2025

    GIS Manager, Broadband Consulting (CTC Technology & Energy)

    Led a 15-person GIS team supporting state broadband offices, including California's Middle Mile network, Oregon's BEAD viewer and Alabama's county profiles, and helped inform $100M+ in BEAD funding allocation.

  3. 2015 – 2021

    GIS Director, NuWater Resources

    Water market studies in the Delaware Basin, covering production interpolation, permit density and offtake demand modeling for produced and fresh water sales.

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Let's map your next decision

Tell us what you're evaluating, whether it's a basin, a county, a corridor or a single site. You'll get a straight answer on fit and a conservative scope.

What happens next: a reply within one business day, a 30-minute scoping call, then a written scope with deliverables, timeline and price.

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