Permanent project revision
Revision 2026-08-20-claim-baseline · effective 2026-07-26
Superseded. A later revision exists: 2026-08-21-source-dates →
Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 7 claims and 9 source dossiers.
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add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.
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The MMDA's Effective Flood Control Operation System, built with Japanese aid in 1993 and rehabilitated by JICA in 2014-2016, telemeters rainfall and river levels across the Pasig-Marikina basin from a control room at Rosario Pumping Station
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Readings publish live on PAGASA's basin site with alert, alarm and critical thresholds
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Crews decide how many Manggahan Floodway gates to open, keyed to the Sto. Niño gauge upstream
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a 2025 government validation flagged 421 flood-control projects nationwide as ghosts
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in May 2026 the Ombudsman charged a senator, a former public works secretary and two Metro Manila district engineers with plunder
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The MMDA says mountain rain gauges give roughly 90 minutes of warning before water levels rise in the Marikina and Pasig rivers
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Metro Manila measures its floods in public, minute by minute, while the works those measurements warn about became the country's largest corruption case
This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.
Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.
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src-84ac08de89a28c6bPrimary and live: publishes real-time river levels for the Marikina, Pasig and Tullahan with alert, alarm and critical elevation columns and a legend distinguishing PAGASA stations from MMDA stations. Rendered with a 26 July 2026 timestamp, confirming the system is running.
src-cafa7999c0b865caGovernment briefing establishing that EFCOS is designed for operating the Manggahan Floodway and the Napindan Hydraulic Control Structure, fed by telemetered observation stations with units at the public works central office, PAGASA, Napindan and Rosario, plus warning posts along the floodway. Direct fetch returns 403; existence and wording confirmed via search.
src-e61a10c60e4b1bceSupports the JICA-funded 2014-2016 rehabilitation, the March 2016 turnover to the MMDA, the control base at Rosario Pumping Station in Pasig, and the roughly 90-minute lead-time claim, quoted from the MMDA chairman.
src-e57337c04525ea93Academic source for the operating practice: the MMDA bases gate control of the Manggahan and Napindan structures on the Sto. Niño water-level gauge upstream of the Rosario weir, supporting the claim that gate operation is a crewed decision on gauge thresholds rather than automatic actuation.
src-9422ae45f92d5d79Dated chronology: the president ordered an audit of three years of flood-control projects in his 28 July 2025 address; on 11 August 2025 he named 15 contractors holding over 100 billion pesos in contracts since 2022; an Independent Commission for Infrastructure was created by executive order on 11 September 2025; Senate hearings opened 19 August 2025.
src-323d75a01dcae344Source for the 421 figure: validation of about 8,000 public works projects, carried out with the defence department, armed forces, police and the planning agency, flagged at least 421 as non-existent, with roughly 100,000 projects still to be validated.
src-b1972d487c57e979Counterweight and precision check: the acting justice secretary told a Senate hearing that only 14 of the 421 were confirmed non-existent, adding that the department was not yet convinced the others were ghost projects. This justifies the word flagged rather than confirmed in the snippet.
src-9067a22c35d4ec2dThe Metro Manila link that carries the scope: charges cover roughly 573 million pesos in alleged kickbacks from fiscal 2025 public works projects in the National Capital Region, naming a senator, a former public works secretary, two National Capital Region district engineers and an assistant district engineer. Charges only; no conviction.
src-269df8a693044748State of proceedings as of mid-2026: the anti-graft court found probable cause and ordered arrests on 1 June 2026, with no bail recommended on the plunder count. Trial pending.