Section 1079. Survey of water resources

The board of supervisors of Suffolk
  county  may,  by  resolution,  appropriate  a sum of money to defray the
  preliminary expenses of such authority so  created  and  may  thereafter
  appropriate  such  sums  as may be required, for the purpose of making a
  survey of the water resources of the said county, and the preparation of
  a map or plan for the development thereof. The authority shall, as  soon
  as  possible,  make  a  survey of the water resources of the county, and
  prepare a map and plan for the development of the same showing in detail
  the proposed sources of water to be developed,  and  the  municipalities
  and  areas  which may be served thereby. Application for approval of the
  project shall then be made to the water power and control commission  as
  provided  by article eleven of the conservation law. If so approved, the
  authority shall enter into  such  contracts  or  agreements  as  may  be
  necessary  to carry out the plan of such development. The authority may,
  however, acquire by purchase or condemnation any existing  water  supply
  and  distribution  system  without  making  such survey and except as to
  properties to be  acquired  under  condemnation  proceedings  instituted
  prior   to  February  first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-two  after  first
  obtaining the approval of  the  board  of  supervisors  of  the  county,
  provided,  however,  that  the  authority shall not acquire any existing
  water supply and distribution system owned by a municipality unless  the
  governing   board  thereof  shall  adopt  a  resolution  requesting  the
  authority to make such acquisition.