Department of Defense installs buoys on the Rio Grande in Cameron County

Contractors with the Department of Defense placed buoys on the Rio Grande in Cameron County, a Pentagon official confirmed to Channel 5 News. Viewer submitted videos of the buoys show that they are at the mouth of the Rio Grande between Playa Bagdad and Boca Chica Beach where the river meets the Gulf. The buoys have a sign on them saying that they are in what the Department of Defense calls a “restricted area,” and unauthorized entry is prohibited. It’s the same sign contractors placed at Playa Bagdad in Matamoros just south of the border across from Boca Chica Beach in November. The Mexican Navy removed those signs shortly afterward. When r…