Serious Safety Concern with 3 inch Shell

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You've got yourself in a catch 22 situation here. Do nothing and worry or call your local police dept.
When you do call the cops they will call your County bomb squad. When they see what you have they're going to evacuate your neighborhood, you know it as well as I do. They're not going to take any risks, that shell is going into the bomb proof mixing vat and taken away to be detonated and you ain't getting any piece of shrapnel either.
There is a third option, take it into the deep woods and bury it nice and deep. Think long and hard my friend.........

I'm sorry, but this is not good advice.. I can't predict what the EOD practice in your part of the world is, but frankly the aim of the exercise is to reduce the risk to all concerned.. they will do what they think best! You should support this..!
Also "losing" the shell in the woods or over the side of a bridge is also questionable logic... If the shell is a risk, then it will remain a risk.. you don't know who is going to find it! Remember this projectile was recovered by a diver, who frankly should have known better...!

Don't be an idiot.. let the proper agency deal with it and if it is considered hazardous, get rid of it safely! This is nothing unusual, we pick up loads of stuff like this every month in UK.. show yourself to be responsible handler of firearms and weapons...!