Removing water from a shared block?

[Khornet]

Had the misfortune of a translocator exit spawning in an underground pool of water.
The standard method of placing o solid block on water and removing it to "dry" the block won't work, as the slot is occupied by the translocator.
Is there any way to remove the water from here? Including a command line?

Edited November 8 by Khornet

[Apehjerne]

I'm wondering about the exact same thing, as we also have one translocator that was spawned in water when we found it on our community server.