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Regulatory Assets and Liabilities (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2019
Regulated Operations [Abstract] |
Schedule of regulatory assets and liabilities | Regulatory assets and liabilities were comprised of the following as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018:
| Recovery Period |  | March 31, 2019 |  | December 31, 2018
Regulatory Assets |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Pension and retiree group health | Indefinitely |  | $ | 156,782 |  |  | $ | 156,947 |
Property-related temporary differences (tax benefits flowed through to customers) | Indefinitely |  | 99,971 |  |  | 99,376 |
Other accrued benefits | Indefinitely |  | 26,453 |  |  | 25,717 |
Net WRAM and MCBA long-term accounts receivable | 1-2 years |  | 27,180 |  |  | 17,134 |
Asset retirement obligations, net | Indefinitely |  | 18,666 |  |  | 18,197 |
Interim rates long-term accounts receivable | 1 year |  | 4,642 |  |  | 4,642 |
Tank coating | 10 years |  | 11,845 |  |  | 11,196 |
Health care balancing account | 1 year |  | 442 |  |  | 442 |
Pension balancing account | 1 year |  | 17,306 |  |  | 16,494 |
Other components of net periodic benefit cost | Indefinitely |  | 3,560 |  |  | 3,221 |
Other regulatory assets | Various |  | 74 |  |  | 203 |
Total Regulatory Assets |  |  | $ | 366,921 |  |  | $ | 353,569 |
Regulatory Liabilities |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Future tax benefits due to customers |  |  | $ | 180,175 |  |  | $ | 180,205 |
Health care balancing account |  |  | 3,547 |  |  | 3,516 |
Conservation program |  |  | 6,931 |  |  | 6,880 |
Net WRAM and MCBA long-term payable |  |  | 409 |  |  | 222 |
Tax accounting memorandum account |  |  | 646 |  |  | 5,039 |
Cost of capital memorandum account |  |  | 127 |  |  | 2,834 |
1,2,3 trichloropropane settlement proceeds |  |  | 12,091 |  |  | 12,142 |
Other regulatory liabilities |  |  | 212 |  |  | 437 |
Total Regulatory Liabilities |  |  | $ | 204,138 |  |  | $ | 211,275 |

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