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Deep Run 2026-10-11: every source re-read and dated, present-tense statements dated, claim array completed; lesson: No listed source calls it the largest corruption case; SunStar's chronology says 'one of the biggest corruption controversies of 2025'. Unsupported superlative softened (the teaser carried the same superlative and is aligned).; sources: The page prints 'Published May 28, 2026 2:28pm' and a same-day update; a same-day revision is not recorded.
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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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In January 2026 the acting justice secretary told the Senate that only 14 of the 421 flagged projects had been confirmed non-existent.
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In September 2026 the anti-graft court dropped the former public works secretary as a co-accused so that he could testify as a state witness
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the senator and the three other accused remained in detention
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Metro Manila measures its floods in public, minute by minute, while the works those measurements warn about became one of the country's biggest corruption scandals
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src-84ac08de89a28c6bLive dashboard of the Pasig-Marikina-Tullahan flood forecasting and warning system: 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. A continuously updated page, so it carries no publication date.
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.
src-e61a10c60e4b1bceReports the JICA-funded rehabilitation and the March 2016 turnover to the MMDA, the control base at Rosario Pumping Station in Pasig, and the MMDA's statement that the system warns at least an hour and a half before water levels rise.
src-e27817efb111b251JICA handed the rehabilitated EFCOS to the MMDA at Rosario Pumping Station after 15 months of repair under an October 2014 memorandum covering the telemetry and radio systems; Phase 1 was completed in 1993 for real-time rainfall and water-level collection across the Pasig-Marikina-Laguna Lake complex; the MMDA has 18 observation stations and nine warning posts along the Manggahan Floodway.
src-e57337c04525ea93Undergraduate thesis modelling the Manggahan and Napindan structures during Typhoon Ulysses; states that in real practice MMDA-EFCOS bases the gate controls of these structures on the Sto. Niño water level gauge station upstream of the Rosario weir.
src-9422ae45f92d5d79Dated chronology calling the scandal one of the biggest corruption controversies of 2025: the president ordered an audit of three years of flood-control projects on 28 July 2025; on 11 August 2025 he named 15 contractors holding over 100 billion pesos in contracts since 2022; Senate hearings opened 19 August 2025; an Independent Commission for Infrastructure was created by executive order on 11 September 2025.
src-323d75a01dcae344Reports the public works secretary's 9 October 2025 announcement that validation of about 8,000 flood-control projects with security and planning agencies flagged 421 as non-existent, with many more still to be validated.
src-563c8abfd3aa72e6Same announcement: the public works department said it found 421 ghost flood-control projects out of the 8,000 it investigated with the armed forces, the defence department and the planning department, and the secretary stressed these were initial figures, with around 100,000 projects still to be validated.
src-b1972d487c57e979The acting justice secretary told a Senate hearing that only 14 of the 421 projects initially flagged as ghosts had been confirmed non-existent and that the department was not yet convinced about the others; a public works undersecretary said the validation might have to restart after wrong grid coordinates were used.
src-9067a22c35d4ec2dThe Ombudsman filed one plunder and two graft cases against Senator Jinggoy Estrada over alleged kickbacks of over 573 million pesos tied to budget insertions in the fiscal 2025 public works portfolio; the former public works secretary, two DPWH National Capital Region district engineers and an assistant district engineer are on the charge sheet. Charges only; no conviction.
src-269df8a693044748The anti-graft court found probable cause and ordered arrests in the plunder case on 1 June 2026, with no bail set.
src-675bc300bdb9b386The anti-graft court's Fifth Division issued a plunder arrest warrant on 1 June 2026 against the senator, the former public works secretary and three DPWH engineers, days after he posted bail on a separate graft charge.
src-2603bd037dd83602The anti-graft court granted the Ombudsman's request to discharge the former public works secretary as a co-accused so he could serve as a state witness, and recalled his arrest warrant; the senator and the three other accused were detained at the Quezon City Jail.