The project to relocate the outfall pipe in the Columbia River from Hood River’s wastewater treatment plant will enter a key phase in the latter part of the month.  City Manager Steve Wheeler says in-water work is about to get underway, with the window for that kind of work continuing into early March.  The complete project should wrap up in the spring.  The move was necessitated by changes in river flows as the result of debris flows during a 2006 storm.  The City received a low interest loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture loan to do the work.