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The agency has not named the contractors or disclosed potential penalties.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>District engineers issued the show-cause orders after reports surfaced that work continued at the Lakeshore Complex site despite the CDO, Star correspondent Rainier Allan Ronda reported. Dizon said he personally had the site checked: "As of our latest reporting, no construction work is continuing at the site. I personally had it checked yesterday and there are no longer workers on the ground," he said. Contractors have yet to submit their formal explanations, after which DPWH says it will determine what penalties, if any, apply.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>That leaves basic accountability questions open for now: which companies ignored the order, for how long, and why the violation wasn't caught before public reports forced DPWH's hand. A department that spent much of 2026 under scrutiny for its own contracting practices — in the fallout from the flood-control kickback scandal that has produced plunder charges against a former House Speaker and dozens of Sandiganbayan cases — has an obvious interest in being seen to enforce its own stop-work orders. Whether the Taguig case ends in real penalties, or a quiet resolution once "workers" are no longer visible on-site, is the detail worth tracking once DPWH reviews the contractors' explanations.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The enforcement action came the same week DPWH and watchdog group Bisto Proyekto launched a public transparency portal tracking 11,372 proposed infrastructure projects worth a combined ₱445 billion nationwide, according to the Star's report — part of a broader push, following the flood-control scandal, to let the public see proposed projects before funds are released rather than learning about ghost projects after audits catch them. 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