Package Project not working with Water Plugin UE5

My blueprint project is packaging fine with the water plugin but the water mesh shows up literally broken. As in, it’s fractured in place along the shoreline and some smaller fragments are scattered and embedded in other parts of the landscape. Very odd. I realize that the water plugin is still experimental in UE5.3 but it would be nice to find a workaround to get everything rendering nice. Would really like to have decent looking water in my game.