Section 844. Hurricane or storm damage in Suffolk county

The board of
  supervisors of the county of Suffolk may provide for the improvement  or
  reconstruction  of  beaches  or shore front within the county, to repair
  damage caused by hurricane or storm, and to provide suitable  protection
  to  prevent  future  damage  to  lands or property by the ocean or other
  waters, including the filling in and grading necessary for such purpose,
  and including dredging material from inland waterways and  moving  earth
  material  on  the  beaches  to  fill  and close new inlets heretofore or
  hereafter formed in such beaches by a hurricane  or  storm;  purchasing,
  filling  and placing sand bags, opening up old road beds or constructing
  new traveling surfaces on the sand to permit traffic along the  beaches;
  transporting  workmen,  materials  and  equipment,  dredging material to
  construct new dunes on the beaches by embankment  alone,  purchasing  of
  material and rental of equipment to construct roadways over new fills or
  along  the beaches; to aid in transportation of materials and equipment;
  purchasing or renting  equipment  for  clearing  debris  from  navigable
  waters;  constructing  dikes,  bulkheads,  jetties  and  groins or other
  similar devices on the beaches and supplying  the  necessary  equipment,
  materials  and  labor therefor; constructing barriers filled with brush,
  wire, snow fence or any other suitable  material,  extending  along  the
  shore,   with  jetties  of  the  same  or  similar  materials  extending
  offshoreward and supplying the necessary labor, equipment and  materials
  necessary   therefor;   any  and  all  engineering  and  supervision  in
  connection with the carrying out of all work  covered  herein;  clearing
  out  roadways  to  expedite traffic, and may acquire real property or an
  interest therein for such purpose by purchase, dedication, gift,  devise
  or  bequest  or  by  condemnation  in  the  manner  provided  by law for
  acquisition of real property for highway or county road purposes.