The Missouri River's level may decline in coming days, but the river was not dropping fast enough Wednesday for Hartsburg in Boone County.
Ask Wednesday whether the river had fallen, Southern Boone County Fire Protection District's public information officer Barrett Glascock said: "Not too much; it's kind of holding its own today."
Glascock had not been to Hartsburg yet that day when he spoke with the News Tribune, but said while a levee along the Missouri River there had not totally breached, "it's getting awful close, and they're sandbagging today."
Sandbagging efforts were focusing on shoring up lower parts of the levee and stockpiling bags at the Katy Trail for if they would be needed to protect the town, he said.
The river bottoms in front of Claysville Store was already flooded, he said, and closer to Hartsburg, there was a lot of seepage happening.
Glascock later updated that while sandbaggers had taken a break from their work in the heat, they would start up again later Wednesday afternoon and would be filling bags until dark - including to start to build up protections on the Katy Trail, which is between most of Hartsburg and the Missouri River.
The Southern Boone County Fire Protection District posted on Facebook that volunteers would meet at the Katy Trail parking lot and receive assignments from there.
The fire protection district posted at about 9 p.m. Tuesday: "We do have water running over the outer levees in places."
The National Weather Service showed the Missouri River continued to remain at about 33 feet Wednesday, with a forecast to drop to about 32 feet by Thursday afternoon.