DPWH · Flood control and drainage
Bicol takes more typhoons than anywhere else in the country, so flood control here is not an abstraction. It is 124.94 billion pesos across 2,380 contracts, the second largest category in the region and the one with the highest average contract value.
Source · DPWH Infrastructure Transparency dataset via the BetterGov.ph API. Pulled 17 August 2026. Bisto Proyekto runs the live filterable table on the same data.
By infrastructure year
Flood control spending in Bicol ran between 4 and 12 billion pesos a year from 2016 to 2021. In 2022 it doubled to 21.28 billion, then held above 24 billion for two more years. The 2025 figure is 3.62 billion.
| Year | Projects | Budget | Average contract |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 108 | ₱3.95B | ₱36.6M |
| 2017 | 192 | ₱6.82B | ₱35.5M |
| 2018 | 276 | ₱11.71B | ₱42.4M |
| 2019 | 186 | ₱7.09B | ₱38.1M |
| 2020 | 240 | ₱9.91B | ₱41.3M |
| 2021 | 262 | ₱10.03B | ₱38.3M |
| 2022 | 405 | ₱21.28B | ₱52.5M |
| 2023 | 341 | ₱24.79B | ₱72.7M |
| 2024 | 281 | ₱24.67B | ₱87.8M |
| 2025 | 74 | ₱3.62B | ₱49.0M |
By district office
Albay 2nd DEO alone books 410 flood control contracts worth 20.66 billion pesos, more than the whole of Camarines Norte, Catanduanes and Masbate combined.
₱30.43B of flood control work, 24.6% of the category, is booked to the regional office with no district engineering office attached. If your barangay floods and you want to know whether a project was funded near you, that quarter of the money is not searchable by place.
By contractor
339 firms hold at least one flood control contract in Bicol. The top ten hold 43.9 percent of the value between them.