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MISSOULA - A new wave is building in town: a surf wave for kayakers and others on the Clark Fork River.

Organizers are calling it The Max Wave, named for Max Lentz, a 17-year-old kayaker who died in 2007.

People who helped establish Brennan's Wave near Caras Park are working to gain momentum for a second surf wave on the Clark Fork River near McCormick Park. The committee's vice president Jason Shreder said more than kayakers should be excited about the project.

"It's not just a wave for kayakers," he said. "It's taking certain pieces, a section of river that's currently unsafe and hazardous to floaters and is also unaesthetic and turning it into a place like Brennan's Wave that's full of energy, safe for passage."

There's still a lot of work to do like finalizing the location and raising funds, but the group hopes to have to have The Max Wave completed by 2015.