The Missouri National Guard submitted these photographs after a recent effort to move water off an access road near a Missouri American Water pump station.

Citizen-Soldiers with Battery D, 1-129th Field Artillery from Independence helped emplace four 12-inch pumps along a Nodaway River levee in Amazonia on July 12.

The pumps are needed to keep water off of a service road used to access the Missouri American Water Company pump stations, said Staff Sgt. Jesse Wills, liaison officer for Andrew County.

“The intent is to put the pumps down to get the water back over the levee to keep these service roads open, that way the Missouri American Water Company can get the wells going and keep providing water to St. Joe and Buchanan County,” said Wills, of Trenton.

Though some water had receded, the road was still waterlogged and water was actively running across from the cornfields that border it, Wills said. The eight-man crew helped American Water and the Andrew County levee district emplace the pumps and lay the pipe.