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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2013
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule of Utility Inventory | The following table summarizes gas in storage, at average cost by company as of:
| June 30, 2013 | September 30, 2012
($ in thousands) | Gas in Storage |  | Bcf (1) | Gas in Storage |  | Bcf (1)
NJNG |  | $ | 63,900 |  | 12.3 |  |  | $ | 145,379 |  | 22.2 |
NJRES |  | 216,218 |  | 56.3 |  |  | 119,814 |  | 45.5 |
Total |  | $ | 280,118 |  | 68.6 |  |  | $ | 265,193 |  | 67.7 |
(1) | Billion cubic feet (Bcf).
Schedule of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Table Text Block] |
(Thousands) | Unrealized gain on available for sale securities | Net unrealized gain on derivatives | Adjustment to postemployment benefit obligation | Total
Beginning balance as of January 1, 2013 | $ | 4,601 |  |  | $ | 41 |  |  | $ | (15,330 | ) |  | $ | (10,688 | )
Other comprehensive income, excluding reclassifications, net of tax of $(611), $(4), $-, $(615) | 885 |  |  | 6 |  |  | — |  |  | 891 |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax of $155, $21 $(405), $(229) | (225 | ) | (1) | (40 | ) | (2) | 592 |  | (3) | 327 |
Net current-period other comprehensive income, net of tax of $(456), $17, $(405), $(844) | 660 |  |  | (34 | ) |  | 592 |  |  | 1,218 |
Ending balance as of June 30, 2013 | $ | 5,261 |  |  | $ | 7 |  |  | $ | (14,738 | ) |  | $ | (9,470 | )
(1) | Reclassified to other income in the Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations.
(2) | Reclassified to gas purchases in the Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations.
(3) | Included in the computation of net periodic pension cost, a component of operations and maintenance expense in the Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations.

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