When the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee reconvenes its inquiry into the country's flood-control program, the hearings will again be dominated by Bulacan and a handful of high-volume regions. But the government's own public records show Negros Oriental is not a bystander to this story — it is part of it.
Drawn from the DPWH flood-control database, PhilGEPS award notices, and the administration's Sumbong sa Pangulo portal, a compilation of contracts in the province lists 115 flood-control projects with a total recorded contract cost of ₱4,530,501,458 across its three congressional districts. The figures are the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) and contract cost exactly as the agencies recorded them.
The national backdrop
Between July 2022 and May 2025, the national flood-control program ran to ₱545.64 billion. On 11 August 2025, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the DPWH publicly identified 15 construction firms that together accounted for roughly a fifth of that spending — about ₱100 billion. The President was explicit that the disclosure was not an accusation of wrongdoing against the named firms.
Weeks later, in sworn testimony before the Blue Ribbon Committee on 1 September 2025, contractor Sarah Discaya acknowledged ownership of a group of nine construction companies. Those companies do not appear in procurement records under the name "Discaya" — each contract is filed under an individual corporate name — so tracing their footprint means matching the nine names one by one.
What the records show in Negros Oriental
Of the 15 nationally-named firms and the nine Discaya companies, seven have a recorded flood-control footprint in Negros Oriental: 38 projects worth ₱1,732,542,095.
| Firm | Status in national review | Projects | Contract cost | Towns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy Construction Corp. | Among the 15 | 22 | ₱961,180,555 | Basay, Bayawan (Tulong), Manjuyod, Sta. Catalina, Siaton, Sibulan, Tanjay, Valencia (Luzurriaga), Vallehermoso |
| Elite Gen. Contractor & Dev't Corp. | Discaya group | 6 | ₱301,695,000 | Basay, Bayawan (Tulong), Bindoy (Payabon), Siaton, Vallehermoso, Zamboanguita |
| Amethyst Horizon Builders | Discaya group | 5 | ₱227,676,540 | Sta. Catalina, Siaton |
| St. Timothy Construction Corp. | Among the 15 · Discaya group | 2 | ₱121,375,000 | Bindoy (Payabon), Vallehermoso |
| QM Builders | Among the 15 | 2 | ₱106,750,000 | Tanjay |
| YPR Gen. Contractor & Construction Supply Inc. | Discaya group | 2 | ₱90,160,000 | Siaton |
| Alpha & Omega Gen. Contractor & Dev't Corp. | Among the 15 · Discaya group | 1 | ₱45,080,000 | Bayawan (Tulong) |
Legacy Construction Corporation alone accounts for more than half of that value — ₱961 million across 22 projects spanning nine towns from Basay in the south to Vallehermoso in the north. One representative entry, contract 22HJ0037, records St. Timothy Construction Corp. (in joint venture with Elite General Contractor) building flood control along the Talaptap River in Barangay Cabugan, Bindoy, for ₱72.375 million, marked completed on 11 August 2022.
The province's single largest flood-control contractor by value in the dataset is a local firm not on the national list at all — PhilSouth Builders Inc., with about ₱1.02 billion across 19 projects. Its recorded contracts, like all the others here, are lawful public transactions; it is named only because the public data place it at the top of the province's flood-control ledger.
Why this matters — and what it is not
Inclusion in this compilation is not an allegation of wrongdoing. Government contracts and public biddings are lawful public transactions. Where a firm is described as "named in" the Senate or DPWH review, that refers to public, reported facts about the inquiry itself — not a finding against the company. President Marcos said as much of the August disclosure.
The point is narrower, and it is about equal scrutiny. The same databases that put Bulacan under the microscope record hundreds of projects in provinces that have drawn little attention. Negros Oriental's three districts are in those records. If the standard is that every peso of the ₱545.64-billion program deserves a public accounting, then the standard applies in Tanjay and Siaton and Vallehermoso exactly as it does in Bulacan.
Where this compilation looks at how flood-control money was spent in the province, a companion analysis — "The New Pork, by District: ₱1.2 Trillion in DPWH ‘Allocables’" — examines the other end of the same system: how each district's budget share is set before the first peso is spent.
How to check this yourself
This piece adds no private information. Every figure is reproducible from public sources:
- The full, source-linked compilation — firm by firm, project by project, with contract IDs — is at kuryentenews.com/transparency/floodcontrol (last updated 3 June 2026).
- The underlying records are the DPWH flood-control database, PhilGEPS award notices, and the Sumbong sa Pangulo portal.
- Corrections are welcome and will be logged.
Kuryente News compiles public records for transparency. If you are a named party and believe an entry is inaccurate, contact us and we will review and correct it.