Great Park is one of the newest pockets of Irvine, built out around the old El Toro Marine base as new-construction tracts have gone up near the Orange County Great Park and Wild Rivers site. Most of the slabs and driveways here are recent pours, but new concrete on reworked base soil can still settle unevenly, especially where fill dirt was compacted quickly to keep construction schedules moving during the neighborhood's rapid buildout.
We get calls from Great Park streets near the Cadence Park and Beacon Park school sites, where sidewalks and driveway approaches sometimes settle at the joints closest to curb cuts. Because much of this area sits on graded former airfield land, settling tends to be uneven rather than uniform, which is exactly the kind of situation mudjacking corrects without the cost of a full slab replacement.
Our crews work throughout Great Park alongside the surrounding Portola Springs, Woodbury, and Eastwood neighborhoods, so we know how the compaction patterns from this section of Irvine's build-out differ from older, established parts of the city. We book jobs Monday through Friday 8am–6pm and Saturday 9am–2pm, and we give straightforward on-site quotes before any work starts.
Around Great Park
We regularly work near:
- 📍Orange County Great Park
- 📍Wild Rivers site
- 📍Cadence Park School
- 📍Beacon Park School
- 📍Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena
- 📍Championship Soccer Stadium
Concrete Leveling Mudjacking in Great Park — Local Notes
- •Homes here are largely newer construction on regraded former base land, so settling often shows up at expansion joints and driveway aprons rather than across whole slabs.
- •Irrigation systems installed with new landscaping in Great Park's HOA-maintained parkways can wash out base material under walkways, creating localized dips that mudjacking fills without disturbing planted areas.
- •With Irvine's dry summers, soil under slabs can shrink and shift seasonally even on newer lots, which shows up as small trip hazards at sidewalk panels near park entrances.
- •Because streets in Great Park were built to current grading codes, most jobs are limited-scope lifts rather than the deeper corrections we see on older Irvine slabs.