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Residents ride canoes to and from their homes in the still-flooded barangay of Dela Paz in Binan, Laguna on November 18, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File

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Rowena Caronan

ABS-CBN Research and Verification Unit

<p>Here is a map of all the flood control projects that were supposedly completed in the 38 provinces of Luzon between July 2022 and May 2025.</p><p>The data was extracted on August 12, 2025 from the Sumbong sa Pangulo website, a day after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. launched the platform. The website came after Marcos ordered the probe of flood control projects at his fourth State of the Nation Address, following massive flooding in various areas in the country.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/8/15/what-marcos-s-data-on-flood-control-projects-tells-us-2115" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>What Marcos’s data on flood control projects tells us</strong></a></div><p>In Luzon, excluding Metro Manila, the 5,634 flood control projects cost P315.3 billion and constituted 57% of all projects in the country. These projects were initiated at various times between February 2018 and March 2025.</p><p>Bulacan tops the list with the most projects at 668, followed by Isabela, Pangasinan, Pampanga, and Albay, each with over 270 projects. Quirino has the fewest projects, with only seven. Ifugao, Batanes, Apayao, Mountain Province, and Catanduanes each have fewer than 50.</p><p>The flood control projects in Luzon were contracted to 1,107 companies. Some projects had one contractor, others had more than one.</p><p>EGB Construction Corp. leads among 1,107 contractors in project count, followed by Centerways Construction and Development Inc. The former carried out 93 projects totaling P7.6 billion, while the latter handled 82 projects costing P5.2 billion.</p><p>Half of the projects of EGB Construction Corp. in Luzon were implemented in Isabela and totaled P3.3 billion. An example is the slope protection work in the Cagayan River Basin in Sta. Maria. This project had a budget of P190 million.</p><p>All projects by Centerways Construction and Development Inc. in Luzon are in the Bicol Region. Fifty-four of these are in Sorsogon, including the P144.5-million flood control structure in Bulan that began construction in 2020.</p><p>Below are all the projects in Luzon. On the map, click on the dots to see details of each project.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/8/15/map-flood-control-projects-in-metro-manila-2203" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>MAP: Flood control projects in Metro Manila</strong></a></div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/8/17/map-flood-control-projects-in-visayas-1645" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>MAP: Flood control projects in Visayas</strong></a></div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/8/17/map-flood-control-projects-in-mindanao-1647" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>MAP: Flood control projects in Mindanao</strong></a></div><div><br/></div><div class="flourish-embed flourish-map" data-src="visualisation/24695446"><script src="https://public.flourish.studio/resources/embed.js"></script><noscript><img src="https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/24695446/thumbnail" width="100%" alt="map visualization"/></noscript></div><div><br/></div><div><strong><em>-- with research from Eliseo Ruel Rioja, ABS-CBN Research and Verification Unit, and Jeshua Jeric Montenegro, Christopher Jerard Parca, and Alyssa Marie Ramos, ABS-CBN Research and Verification Unit Interns</em></strong></div>

<p>President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s Sumbong sa Pangulo website listed 9,855 completed projects amounting to P545.6 billion. Three in five of these projects are spread across the 38 provinces in Luzon and cost P315.3 billion.</p>

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s Sumbong sa Pangulo website listed 9,855 completed projects amounting to P545.6 billion. Three in five of these projects are spread across the 38 provinces in Luzon and cost P315.3 billion.

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MAP: Flood control projects in Luzon, excluding Metro Manila

Rowena Caronan,

ABS-CBN Research and Verification Unit

Published Aug 17, 2025 01:48 PM PHT

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Updated Aug 17, 2025 06:56 PM PHT

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