The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday it will release more water from Lake Lanier because of drought conditions affecting the river basin in Georgia, eastern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.According to Lisa Parker, a spokeswoman for the corps, water will now leave Lanier at a rate of 2,500 cubic feet per second, up from the minimum release of 1,100 cubic feet per second. The release is to make up for historical inflow lows on the Flint River, which flows from south of Atlanta through central and south Georgia and joins the Chattahoochee River at Lake Seminole. From there, they flow as the Apalachicola south to the Gulf of Mexico.More water also will be released from West Point Lake near LaGrange on the Chattahoochee.“There’s not impoundments on the Flint,” Parker said.