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Stock-Based Compensation Plans (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract] |
Schedule of Actual Allocation of Plan Assets [Table Text Block] | The Committee approves the target asset allocations. Registrant’s pension and post-retirement plan weighted-average asset allocations at December 31, 2016 and 2015, by asset category are as follows:
|  | Pension Benefits |  | Post-Retirement Medical Benefits
Asset Category |  | 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Actual Asset Allocations: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Equity securities |  | 57 | % |  | 55 | % |  | 58 | % |  | 60 | %
Debt securities |  | 38 | % |  | 40 | % |  | 39 | % |  | 38 | %
Real Estate Funds |  | 5 | % |  | 5 | % |  | — | % |  | — | %
Cash equivalents |  | — | % |  | — | % |  | 3 | % |  | 2 | %
Total |  | 100 | % |  | 100 | % |  | 100 | % |  | 100 | %
Schedule of share-based compensation expenses | The following table presents share-based compensation expenses for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014. These expenses resulting from restricted stock units, including performance awards, are included in administrative and general expenses in AWR's and GSWC’s statements of income:
|  | AWR |  | GSWC
|  | For The Years Ended December 31, |  | For The Years Ended December 31,
(in thousands) |  | 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Stock-based compensation related to: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Restricted stock units |  | $ | 2,538 |  |  | $ | 2,754 |  |  | $ | 2,222 |  |  | $ | 2,118 |  |  | $ | 2,443 |  |  | $ | 1,748 |
Total stock-based compensation expense |  | $ | 2,538 |  |  | $ | 2,754 |  |  | $ | 2,222 |  |  | $ | 2,118 |  |  | $ | 2,443 |  |  | $ | 1,748 |
Schedule of assumptions used to estimate fair value of each option grant on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model | will be earned based on Registrant’s TSR compared to the TSR for a specific peer group of investor-owned water companies. A summary of the status of Registrant’s outstanding performance awards to officers as of December 31, 2016, and changes during the year ended December 31, 2016, is presented below:
| Number of Performance awards |  | Weighted Average Grant-Date Value
Performance awards at January 1, 2016 | 131,953 |  |  | $ | 30.66 |
Granted | 29,758 |  |  | 40.81 |
Performance criteria adjustment | (8,100 | ) |  | 28.09 |
Vested | (51,408 | ) |  | 27.82 |
Performance awards at December 31, 2016 | 102,203 |  |  | $ | 35.25 |
Summary of stock option activity | A summary of stock option activity as of December 31, 2016 and changes during the year ended December 31, 2016, are presented below:
| Number of Options |  | Weighted Average Exercise Price |  | Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term |  | Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Options outstanding at January 1, 2016 | 150,606 |  |  | $ | 17.39 |  |  |  |  |  |
Granted | — |  |  | — |  |  |  |  |  |
Exercised | (12,546 | ) |  | 18.75 |  |  |  |  |  |
Forfeited or expired | (1,500 | ) |  | 16.87 |  |  |  |  |  |
Options outstanding at December 31, 2016 | 136,560 |  |  | $ | 17.27 |  |  | 1.92 |  | $ | 3,863,731 |
Options exercisable at December 31, 2016 | 136,560 |  |  | $ | 17.27 |  |  | 1.92 |  | $ | 3,863,731 |
Summary of the status of Registrant's outstanding restricted stock units to employees and directors | A summary of the status of Registrant’s outstanding RSUs, excluding performance awards, to employees and directors as of December 31, 2016, and changes during the year ended December 31, 2016, is presented below:
| Number of Restricted Share Units |  | Weighted Average Grant-Date Value
Restricted share units at January 1, 2016 | 111,335 |  |  | $ | 26.21 |
Granted | 37,807 |  |  | 40.52 |
Vested | (40,555 | ) |  | 27.03 |
Forfeited | (858 | ) |  | 38.06 |
Restricted share units at December 31, 2016 | 107,729 |  |  | $ | 30.83 |

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