This study aimed to analyze the operating costs for water treatment due to the degradation of water springs. Variables were selected like costs with energy, turbidity, costs with aluminum sulfate and hydrated lime, costs with chlorine and fluorine, final costs and personnel costs, adducted and produced volume, in order to demonstrate how the quality of Ribeirão Taquarussu Spring, while turbidity, influence on operating costs. To define the results, mathematical and statistical tools were used, concluding that the costs and consumption of hydrated lime and aluminum sulfate are justified by 105.44% increase in the adducted volume between the years of 2010 and 2015 and not by the average turbidity fluctuation. Pearson´s correlation only indicates that the average turbidity, has greater influence for the hydrated lime in the years 2013 and 2014 and with aluminum sulfate, in the years 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014 with the average turbidity and for maximum turbidity in the year 2015, all rated as strong positive, uncorrelated with minimal turbidity. Anova defines that turbidity does not influence operating costs. In relation to costs for the treated water production stage, 2015 is considered the year with more cost benefit and higher production volume (PV) of 19,314,233.00 m³ and annual operating time (TFA) of 6,670.46 h holding the maximum monthly cost of $ 0.30/m³ and maximum annual cost of $ 0.25/m³. The final value of the treated water production is higher than the cost for the clarification phase. However, the treated water production phase shows more efficiency with less oscillation between the annual costs and that the cost of chemicals is 12 % of the total cost of operation. Finally, it can be concluded that the analysis of five sampling stations, carried out in 2014 and 2015 render that the Taquarussu Ribeirão basin turbidity is low, with few fluctuations in the study period, not influencing ETA 6 operations.
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