{"id":376989,"date":"2026-07-17T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376989\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:44:27","slug":"over-100-rio-grande-border-buoys-break-free-near-eagle-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376989\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 Rio Grande border buoys break free near Eagle Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTx Dept. of Emergency Management and Eagle Pass Police Chief Amy Gonzalez have confirmed over 100 buoys are floating downstream from (the) Quemado area on the Rio Grande and are headed into town,\u201d said state Rep. Eddie Morales Jr., D-Eagle Pass, in a Facebook post just before 10 p.m.<\/a> on Thursday, July 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has prompted the closure of both International Bridges,\u201d Morales further said. The bridges were reopened after midnight.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, additional buoys and other equipment that had been staged beneath the Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras International Bridge at Shelby Park \u2014 the 47-acre municipal park in Eagle Pass that once served as a temporary processing center for undocumented migrants \u2014 have since been relocated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have confirmation that the shipping containers, round buoys in the water, and temporary fence structures have been moved from Shelby Park. However, the Federal Government staged the cylinder buoys in the park and personnel are working to remove those,\u201d Morales said.<\/p>\n

Late last night, Laredo officials announced they were monitoring the situation in case the buoys continued to flow downstream toward one of the largest cities on the border and its six international bridges.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Fire Department, Office of Emergency Management, Police Department, and other partner agencies remain in constant communication and are prepared to response as conditions evolve,\u201d Laredo Mayor Dr. Victor D.\u00a0Trevino said in a statement<\/a> shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n

MySA reached out to the City of Laredo and DHS for updated information on the buoys. Laredo officials said the buoys had not arrived in the city as of 10:30 a.m. DHS did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTx Dept. of Emergency Management and Eagle Pass Police Chief Amy Gonzalez have confirmed over 100 buoys are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[847,820,30030,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-376989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysanews","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysatx","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}