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Regulatory Assets Liabilities and Reclassification from Regulatory Assets Liabilities into Cost of Gas Sales (Detail) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2014
Natural Gas Future/Options Contract
Regulatory Assets [Line Items]
Loss/(Gain) recognized in Regulatory Assets(Liabilities)	$ 0.9utl_DerivativeInstrumentsGainLossRecognizedInRegulatoryAssets / us-gaap_RegulatoryAssetAxis = utl_NaturalGasPurchaseContractMember
Gas Purchase Costs
Regulatory Assets [Line Items]
Loss/(Gain) Reclassified into unaudited Consolidated Statement of Earnings	$ 0.9us-gaap_DerivativeInstrumentsNotDesignatedAsHedgingInstrumentsLoss / us-gaap_RegulatoryAssetAxis = utl_GasPurchaseCostsMember	[1]
[1] These amounts are offset in the unaudited Consolidated Statements of Earnings with Accrued Revenue and therefore there is no effect on earnings.

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Amount of realized and unrealized loss of derivative instruments not designated or qualifying as hedging instruments.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 815

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=35706170&loc=SL5624171-113959

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Gains and Losses from hedging program recognized in regulatory assets.

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